A tale of a copycat site
by Kevin Dangoor
Found on Slashdot, here is one developer’s tale of bringing down a copycat site. It is very hard to protect intellectual property on the net. While I think that open source is great, I also think that no viable business model for open source consumer desktop software has yet appeared. Until we can figure out a good model, we have to deal with IP violations.
no viable model? i can relate, but can you elaborate?
No viable market for open source consumer desktop software
In a comment on A tale of a copycat site, Robert Renling asked me to elaborate on why I say there’s no viable model for open source consumer desktop software. I started adding a comment, but it seemed long enough…