[jlg23]

Licenses like these are a logistical nightmare. If someone deploys software under that license, paying that person for the job is the smallest item on the bill: Now I have to connect my legal department with my techies and with the finance folks. Let's schedule meetings every 3 months to review for which software we have to pay now!

Just the logistical overhead alone justifies a fork for any of the targeted users^wcustomers.

[rcthompson]

Yeah, the thing to remember is that "cost" is not a smooth or continuous function of price. There's a very large jump discontinuity between $0 and $0.01. It's not an issue that comes up for most products, because for most products a price of $0 doesn't make sense. But software runs up against this regularly.

[aseipp]

"Paying people for their work sucks, what a drag. Undercutting their work so we can continue to profit more is a much better strategy."

[betenoire]

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html