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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-23 06:05:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F476690.3080304@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> <3F460D73.7090801@noplace.com> <20030822153839.5ec5c918.david@realityrift.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:05:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.25.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1061643927 209.165.25.246 (Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:05:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:05:27 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41817 Date: 2003-08-23T13:05:27+00:00 List-Id: I'd want to see some evidence that putting a paypal button on a website would generate sufficient revenue to make a project sustain itself. Possibly a better way is to publish documentation and sell that as an extra. Or provide the "basic" package free of charge but charge a fee to get the "extras". Somehow, some way, you've got to find a way to generate some revenue or the thing would languish. MDC David Holm wrote: > Place a paypal donation button on the page and strongly advice commercial users to donate as > much as they can afford. If there is commercial interest in such an application, which there > seems to be, I believe some companies would support it. Of course, this would require having a > somewhat usable application first. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================