GPL Sued For "Software Price Fixing"

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:08 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I think he means that as a person who makes commercial software (you pay
> for it), he cannot compete with FOSS. FOSS is too cheap. How does the
> FOSS software stay at this cheap (free) price? Someone has set it that
> way. He points the finger at OSF and the GNU license all like to use.
>
> It is an odd idea that making something open is price fixing. I think
> that you could charge for your product that includes changes done to GPL
> code, as long as you make the source available.
>
> Will doctors now complain against free clinics? Or professionals against
> volunteers in any field?

And what about MicroSoft giving away a free browser?  Netscape couldn't 
compete with that but would you call it price fixing?  Seems to me to be the 
same situation.