RedHat Linux is theoretically more endangered to get "cloned" than your product, because all they really sell are CD boxes. You can still sell your hardware, if (which is very unlikely) someone else branches of a better player. Red Hat is actually pleased that people came up with Mandrake Linux, because under the GPL, Red Hat can incorporate the improvements.

Yes, there is something that stops prople writing their own player: The display API.
As soon as you release that, chances are high, that people WILL develop a better Open Source
player on their own. But by then you already have lost sympathy and people will try different players.

It's not the Licence that will protect your business, it's your support for open development.


Raphael Wegmann
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