Comment on Comparing open source and proprietary software markets by Dirk Riehle

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My point was: What’s stopping you from charging a license fee if you can get away with it? There is nothing inherent in the single-vendor model that requires you not to charge a license fees. The competitive situation may make it hard in some situations but I’m sure there’ll be markets with a strongly dominant open source player so why wouldn’t they choose to charge an upfront license fee?

Red Hat is not a good counterexample because SUSE is explicitly being supported to keep Red Hat from completely dominating the market which would just be another Microsoft situation which lo and behold might mean upfront license fees



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