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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham 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!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then Date: 13 Apr 2006 08:57:35 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> <739b0$443e4f69$45491254$22018@KNOLOGY.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1144936587 19550 192.135.80.34 (13 Apr 2006 13:56:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:56:27 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3816 Date: 2006-04-13T08:57:35-05:00 List-Id: In article <739b0$443e4f69$45491254$22018@KNOLOGY.NET>, "Marc A. Criley" writes: > 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 gets assurance that the modifications will continue in the product line. This is a major improvement to the mainframe model where customers get source to the product but will have to re-integrate local changes into successive versions of the product.