Would Linux be as popular now if it was dual licensed from the beginning?
Everyone who wanted to install Linux in a company had to pay $99 per CPU? (or whatever), or PostgreSQL, GNU tools and so on.
If you dual license it, can you legally enforce who can use which? Can you take a company to court if they are using the tool that is open source as well as dual license?
Opensource is a fad now. Everyone wants to make their software "open source", make the world better, while at the same time making billions., and getting really mad if someone else is making money off it.
Though the term open source is not so worn out and tired that it is nearly meaningless since people use it in all sorts of ways.
When I use the term, I mean classic GNU and Linux open source.
For people who get angry about the inability to make enough $$$ on a GPL license should also ensure that they are not using GLP licensed tools/apps/code in their work.
I have no problem with people making proprietary software and selling it. I dont have a problem with people making GPL software and offering to sell it.
I dont like the duality in wanting to be "cool and open source saving whales" and at the same time expecting billions off the product.