"Adam L. Beberg" <beberg@mithral.com> writes:
> > VCs don't care about the success of the venture or the jobs of those
> > involved in it, they aren't "funding innovation" or stimulating growth
> > or fueling the economy.
>
> Possibly replace "own" with "take from you ASAP with dilution". Their goal
> is to take what you have by any means nessecary and sell it to someone else
> for more then they paid within 7 years or less. That's what they do, nice
> and simple. Your based-on-GPL-thing gives them no way to do that, so you are
> irrelivant to the VC/investment world.
Interestingly, it was the VC that convinced Zope Corp. to go opensource.
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On 19 Jul 2002, Karl Anderson wrote:
> "Adam L. Beberg" <beberg@mithral.com> writes:
>
> > Possibly replace "own" with "take from you ASAP with dilution". Their goal
> > is to take what you have by any means nessecary and sell it to someone else
> > for more then they paid within 7 years or less. That's what they do, nice
> > and simple. Your based-on-GPL-thing gives them no way to do that, so you are
> > irrelivant to the VC/investment world.
>
> Interestingly, it was the VC that convinced Zope Corp. to go opensource.
But wasnt that before they realized that Open Source(TM) ment they couldnt
control it? There was a time when VC love was all over Open Source(TM) as a
revenue model.
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