| Why would anyone buy the source engine when they could take it for free?
Okay lets try this one last time.
Lets say Joe and Moe spend thier life savings in and several years writting a new net code that allows streaming video real time even over a 56k line. It's revolutionary. They want to be compensated for this I.E. make money. But what company is going go to spend the money to purchase this when it has no legal protection in Europe?
"Gee guys, that's really awesome, but we'll just bypass you and take the code open source, since you cannot patent it, why should we pay you?"
Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" is still being challenged to this day, but by consensus Global Warming is a fact... that's REAL science at work, why didn't Albert just go that route? |