From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb4d45672b1e262 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> <739b0$443e4f69$45491254$22018@KNOLOGY.NET> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:35:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1vbr0dnx2g87z.1mkq87nz4lf62$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Apr 2006 15:35:07 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 73119689.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=[flC]Ymnk:omBTbc_2cXMbQ5U85hF6f;djW\KbG]kaMhAV6U:Z=fE=oXN\`bbnNXTo[6LHn;2LCVn7enW;^6ZC`dIXm65S@:3>o X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3815 Date: 2006-04-13T15:35:07+02:00 List-Id: 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