That sums it up ;o)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Waters" <bryanw@abwaters.com>
To: "Vladislav S. Davidzon" <vladislav@davidzon.com>; "Bizops-List@Opensrs.
Org" <bizops-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: phpDomain Support
> Doesn't sound like GPL or LGPL to me? Sounds like you want to do
commercial
> software development and thats fine. Looks like a decent product but dont
> pretend to be open source when its not? If you leave the license as
> GPL/LGPL and charge a download fee of $100-150 (yes, thats unreasonable
for
> a distribution fee) then there is nothing to stop anyone else from putting
> the software up for download for a lesser fee or even for free. If you
are
> worried about development cost why don't you do this? Put the software on
> sourceforge to remove all costs associated with hosting and allow the user
> community to support the software. Then offer custom contracting and
> consulting services...
>
> -bryanw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bizops-list@opensrs.org
> [mailto:owner-bizops-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Vladislav S. Davidzon
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 10:13 PM
> To: bizops-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: RE: phpDomain Support
>
>
> Greetings folks,
>
> We are getting ready to launch version 1 of phpDomain, now that
> most all bugs have been worked out. We will likely continue the
> process of licensing the software under the GPL/LGPL (probably the
> later), but will charge a distribution fee.
>
> The fee will allow a user to download the software and get access
> to updates for that version (ie all updates in the v1 tree), with
> the next major update (major being tons of new features, etc)
> being the next major version.
>
> What would you be willing to pay for our software? We can't make
> this happen without your support: we have the features we need
> ourselves, and if the OpenSRS community (YOU) want us to continue
> development, you guys will have to chip in and pick up some of the
> costs.
>
> Also, if you wish to contribute funds for the development, we have
> set up a contributions system through paypal at:
> http://www.thinkhost.com/software/phpdomain/contribute.txt
>
> We are looking at a download fee of maybe $100-150? Would that be a
> reasonable fee? I think that's the minimum reasonable to ask from
> a business that makes money from our software. What would you be
> willing to pay?
>
> Would you also be interested in buying support contracts or installation
> services? If so what would be a fair price that you'd be willing to
> pay?
>
> Please contact me directly or through the list.
>
> All contributions are greatly appreciated, thanks in advance for your
> support.
>
> Sincerely,
> )))))
> Vladislav (ô ô)
> ---------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------------
> --
> Vladislav S. Davidzon
> davidzon@thinkhost.com
> Executive Director, ThinkHost
> http://www.thinkhost.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"
>
>
>
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