Well thats easy enough...Its the "not invented here!" syndrome.
I've seen programmers do that my entire career. That being the case, it is
a lot of times justified from that person's perspective since comfort level
with code is very important. It is easier for most programmers to rewrite
something from scratch than it is to grok someone else's code and
architecture...not the most efficient method of doing things but you
certainly learn more!
-bryanw
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dickson [mailto:peter@bc-group.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 7:51 AM
To: Bryan Waters
Cc: bizops-list@opensrs.org
Subject: RE: phpDomain Support
Which comes back to my [offlist] question asking why he started from
scratch and didn't just extend the work on the existing opensrs-php
sourceforge project.
rgds
P.
------------------------Original Message------------------------
-- Date: 15 September 2002 11:28 -0700
-- Sender: Bryan Waters <bryanw@abwaters.com>
> 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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