From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:35:07 +0200
Date: 2006-04-13T15:35:07+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1vbr0dnx2g87z.1mkq87nz4lf62$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 739b0$443e4f69$45491254$22018@KNOLOGY.NET
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:18:36 -0500, Marc A. Criley wrote:
> And this occurs in the proprietary software world as well. On two
> instances in my career a customer pays a vendor to modify their product
> in a certain way. The vendor continues to own the product in whole, the
> customer simply now gets a release that does what they need--and all the
> vendor's other customers get that improved product as well.
>
> (My involvement was with unrelated vendor/customer pairs, once on the
> customer side, and once on the vendor side, and so I'm sure this is not
> an uncommon occurrence.)
Yes, it happens. I also witnessed such cases. But usually it does when the
customer is relatively distant to software business. They might require
that the product won't be licensed to competitors. Though, normally
customers feel that if they have paid for developing, they also should own
the result of.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2006-04-01 13:47 Any way of persuading GNAT/GCC to implement a true overlay and not a pointer? Doobs
2006-04-01 14:33 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-04-01 16:52 ` Doobs
2006-04-01 17:56 ` Martin Krischik
2006-04-01 18:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-01 17:08 ` Florian Weimer
2006-04-01 17:54 ` Doobs
2006-04-01 18:19 ` Doobs
2006-04-01 20:01 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-04-01 21:33 ` Doobs
2006-04-03 12:25 ` Gerd
2006-04-01 20:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-04 1:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-10 1:42 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-10 20:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-11 13:54 ` Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? Marc A. Criley
2006-04-11 15:13 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-11 16:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-11 17:56 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-11 18:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-12 13:59 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-12 14:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-15 19:33 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-12 17:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-04-13 3:16 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-11 19:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-11 20:18 ` Ed Falis
2006-04-12 14:10 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-12 20:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-15 20:37 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-18 0:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-18 16:02 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-12 19:27 ` Martin Dowie
2006-04-12 8:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-12 11:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-12 15:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-12 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-12 19:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-12 21:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-13 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-13 14:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-14 10:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-14 12:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-15 10:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-15 18:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-13 2:58 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-13 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-15 21:17 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-16 10:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-16 13:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-16 17:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-16 20:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-04-17 9:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-19 20:38 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-20 18:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-18 0:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-04-16 14:55 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-16 17:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-19 18:17 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-20 18:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-04-11 15:34 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-12 2:59 ` Steve
2006-04-13 7:41 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2006-04-13 13:18 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-04-13 13:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2006-04-13 13:57 ` Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then Larry Kilgallen
2006-04-13 19:37 ` Justin Gombos
2006-04-13 21:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-04-14 2:49 ` Justin Gombos
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