From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: and visual library once again
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:44:08 -0700
Date: 2005-10-22T20:44:08-07:00 [thread overview]
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>"Szymon Guz" <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT> wrote in message
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>Simon Wright napisa�(a):
>> "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>I'm actually a big supporter of the GPL and look forward to the day
>>>(5 to 100 years from now) when all (non-classified) computer
>>>programs will be GPL'd or it's future equivalent.
>>
>>
>> In the environment I work in, there would IMO be no problem; since the
>> government agency that is purchasing the product requires full source
>> delivery anyway!
>
>sure, but for me the problem with GPL looks like this:
>
>If I want to create a very good program I need to employee some programmers
>so I have costs. Of course I want to get the money back, so I want to sell
>the program many times to get enough money (ok I want to sell the licence
>or whatever, I had $200000 of costs and I sell the program for $200 per
>copy, so I have to sell at least 1000 copies to earn 0 on that). If I sell
>the program on the GPL licence client can sell the program cheaper than me
>many many times, so how can I get my money back (and how can I earn on the
>program).
Don't sell software. Sell software support.
Include a manual and subscription based support and your customers will get
more value by obtaining the software from you. It seems to be working well
for AdaCore.
Steve
(The Duck)
>regards
>Szymon Guz
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-20 17:29 and visual library once again Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 18:38 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-20 21:01 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 21:04 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-20 21:09 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 21:21 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-21 2:19 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21 3:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 7:52 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-21 13:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 10:43 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21 13:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 13:54 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-21 16:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 18:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-25 22:01 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-21 4:02 ` tmoran
2005-10-21 6:54 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22 5:38 ` tmoran
2005-10-23 2:42 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-21 9:58 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21 14:55 ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-21 16:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-21 22:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-23 6:31 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23 11:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-23 21:41 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-24 3:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-24 12:52 ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-25 7:23 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-25 14:20 ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-21 17:01 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-22 5:38 ` tmoran
2005-10-25 20:51 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-25 22:16 ` tmoran
2005-10-25 23:14 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-26 0:14 ` tmoran
2005-10-26 22:11 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-26 23:46 ` OT: was " tmoran
2005-10-27 23:40 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-28 2:30 ` tmoran
2005-10-30 0:20 ` Björn Persson
2005-10-21 7:00 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-21 14:18 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-21 15:53 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-21 18:14 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-21 18:52 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-21 18:26 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-21 20:11 ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-21 20:47 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22 5:38 ` tmoran
2005-10-22 12:06 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-23 2:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-23 6:35 ` tmoran
2005-10-23 6:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22 7:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-23 2:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-23 8:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-23 5:34 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23 6:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-23 7:39 ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23 9:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-24 12:56 ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-24 13:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-23 3:44 ` Steve [this message]
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