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Making Money In Open Source
Khalid writes "An interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson, it brings a lot of interesting information about their business model and licensing scheme. A lot of good ideas, when a lot of open source based companies are struggling for life. "
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> Making Money In Open Source
Let me see, you take an existing product and put a clock in it.
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eat rice for the lest of your life
Shouldn't that be "eat rice for the lest of your rife"?
*me moving to Japan in a couple months... Gotta brush up!
Ohh, I made a typo.
In the last 20 years, America has attacked:
- Libya
- Grenada
- Panama
- Somalia
- Haiti
- Afghanistan
- Sudan
- Iraq
- Yugoslavia
Wow! We really are the Great Satan®!!Shouldn't that be "eat rice for the lest of your rife"? :)
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You mean: flirty coffeehouse reiterator ? or want to shortly officiate route reefer?
Reagan shelled the place after a suicide bomber drove a truck into a Marine barracks, killing something like 200 soldiers.
Then we left and less than 20 years later a bunch of suicide terrorist kill thousands in NYC, so we bomb Afganistan.
We'll probably leave again.
Peace, or Not?
I have a valid point, whereas you have moderator points. Wasting them on a post with a value of "0" just shows how STUPID you are. Asshole. Go browse GOATSE or something...
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How about utilizing grammar on your website?
Look, here's a cool investment
They're tellin' him he just can't lose
So he goes out and tries 2 find a partner
But all he finds are users (Lusers)
All he finds are snakes in every color
Every nationality and size
Seems like the only thing that he can do is just roll his eyes
And say that money don't matter 2night (Don't matter)
It sure didn't matter yesterday
Just when U think U've got more than enough
That's when it all up and flies away (No, no, no, no)
That's when U find out that U're better off
Makin' sure your soul's alright (Soul's alright)
Cuz money didn't matter yesterday (Don't matter)
And it sure don't matter 2night
There , there ... you getting closer.
This is how most of our economy is run.
You PAY people for their work and then you sell stuff they produce.
Hell, stop trying to "bend" GPL into something that it is not.
There is nothing wrong with charging people for your work.
Wait till someone with a lot of cash grabs your products, puts it into nice box and spends $ 10 000 000 on marketing ( after all they won't have any R&D costs, will they ?).
Good luck in your venture, you will learn the hard way.
"take the money issue away from the development of the software."
... There were thousands like you before, there were revolutions over this issue, yet we are still stuck with good old capitalism. That should tell you something.
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Fuck, you are so stupid it is not even funny.
Take away money from anything and it dies.
Don't you people ever learn from our history ?
Read, learn, you are not the first one to come up with "revolutionary" ideas
What makes you think that RMS and his puny little theory ( his GPL is really nothing compared to intellectual giants like Marx ) will somehow shake and bend old laws of economy ?
"Make money with your knowledge!"
If I write proprietary software and then sell it I definitely make money with my knowledge.
The difference is that nobody else who does not want to pay for my knowledge get to take advantage of my work.
How can that considered unfair is beyond me
If the original AC (it wasn't me) was smart, he'd reply, "Oh... nevermind."
Did you know that tomatoes are free? It's absolutely true. Anyone can grow tomatoes at virtually no expense. They are "worthless." What costs you money at the store isn't the tomato. It's the transportation and storage of the tomato, which is STILL so "worthless" that you find it preferable to buy it rather than grow your own. Zuccinni has NEGATIVE value. Sometimes you literally can't give it away.
No, that's not at all true. There are companies who have spent millions developing vegetables that grow faster, bigger, are bug and disease resistant, etc. Those are NOT free.