Just don't tell anybody that it is GPL-ed until they ask the license details - and if they do, just tell them that they will receive a site license that enables them to use it commercially without paying additional fees for 99 years for X dollars - and the more you charge, the better your product will be:)
Now imagine that the same random person decides to buy a car.
He buys it, takes it home, sits it, starts the engine, and kills itself in ten seconds.
He should have thought about getting a driving license, right? ECDL
Next to my Uni, there was a pub, where you got a free shot of vodka if you shown your index and there was a fresh "exam failed" mark in it. Those were the days...
By frightening people, they are successfully slowing down the business model change which is a consequence of the IT revolution (or Industrial Revolution III).
My guess is that they know it is dying - they just want a little bit more money before discarding the RIAA as "the evil force that forced us to force the old model - but we have a new one now, and we became good and nice).
Water purifier pills are way cheaper.
Still, most people don't keep a box of them "just in case" in their backpack (right next to the dry rations, water-proof matches and raincoat).
I hope you realize that by selling bridges, you authorize buyers to destroy them (they can destroy their property, right)? Therefore, offering bridges that you do not own is supporting terrorism.
The answer is, as for any good questions: depends.
A few rules what not to do: A) "Phoning home required" and "online registration required" means "won't use this". B) Crippling unregistered versions is a bad idea for business software - they need to spend more on IT support. C) Time-limiting your software is a no-go - the limit will be exceeded in the middle of an important meeting/negotiation, and your software will be eradicated in two days. D) No matter what you add, pirates can remove it, but legitimate users will suffer. E) Never take your client's data as ransom - you will lose your customers if you do (in this particular case, a read-only access for unregistered clients could be acceptable).
A few rules what to do: A) Printing nice license certificates will get you more money from typical business users. B) "Phoning home for updates if accepted by user" and "online updates are available only for registered instances, offline updates are available only for registered cusmtomers" is OK - they feel they get support. C) Giving volume licenses will save some headache for Business and for you (if they need 7 license, they will likely to buy a 10-pack for a price of 8 licenses). D) Offer site licenses based on the size of the company, if they ask you about the price/discount - that way, your software has a chance to become "the internal standard". D) Unique ID is a good idea, as long as it is visible to the user and the software is working even if not capable to phone home (a red "unregistered" label is a good reminder for legitimate users). E) If you add time-locked registration codes, you should make it possible to load multiple codes and continue if at least one of them is valid. F) Consider building customised instances for them - like embedding a background image of "Licensed to company X, for 10 seats". G) Offer them absolutely copy-protection free versions for double-price. H) An automated version check in the background (no serial, just checks an txt file via http) will give you some info if you have access to the web server logs and will be considered as a feature.
In fact, I say that the rights of developers working under the GPL should be totally ignored as long as we're going to cheer on people who are getting sued for downloading music they didn't buy.
Music downloaders == GPL software users (can not breach the GPL).
Bootleggers == GPL violators (Getting money for other's work).
In my country, you get a 200 USD fine for the first one, and a year in prison for the second one.
Eknagy
p.s.: Yes, there are some people who would like us to beleive that "torrent" means "distribution". You don't have anything, then you download it, and by downloading it, you distribute it (although you did not have it in the beginning). Riiight.
A more user friendly way is to install something like nekjs.
If you need a new feature, just use the SourceForge service marketplace to find somebody to code it.
In that sense, you are right - but could you sleep without testing your programs on the supported platforms with any other language/platform?
I mean, can you show me anything that is better than Java on mentioned platforms and is less bug-free (while providing similar libraries)?
Elmar
I wrote Java programs in a few hours that ran on Windows, Linux and AIX, and were UTF-8 capable. I used three different brands of JREs (not MS, though) and my programs ran on all of them. I had less security problems with Java than with ActiveX, Flash or PHP.
Seriously, I think you really need to get some training in how to determine if a horse is dead or not. Or, maybe, you should get a degree in Sales and stop being a troll.
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Just don't tell anybody that it is GPL-ed until they ask the license details - and if they do, just tell them that they will receive a site license that enables them to use it commercially without paying additional fees for 99 years for X dollars - and the more you charge, the better your product will be :)
You mean the Apple iCore?
Now imagine that the same random person decides to buy a car.
He buys it, takes it home, sits it, starts the engine, and kills itself in ten seconds.
He should have thought about getting a driving license, right?
ECDL
Yes, well, another proof that SAT is NP-hard.
Yes, like an owner of a Cofee Shop in the NetherLands calling the police that some guys broke their Windows (the physical ones).
Pengiuns == raptors with feathers?
http://evilpenguins.tribe.net/photos/dc173506-5ac0-4084-bcac-fa1a3a898ef3
Is that you, G-Bill?
Almost the same story with me. The solution is to fix the bug yourself.
Maybe biometrics and fancy passwords.
There, I fixed it for you.
Next to my Uni, there was a pub, where you got a free shot of vodka if you shown your index and there was a fresh "exam failed" mark in it.
Those were the days...
Yawn.
Well then, we have to wait for AM2+ to become available, and with the new AM2+ Barcelonas, it will worth the money.
Reminds me RDRAM...
If that old lady who plugs that vacuum cleaner into the UPS every day at 05:00 would stop cleaning it, there would be no such problems with gravity!
By frightening people, they are successfully slowing down the business model change which is a consequence of the IT revolution (or Industrial Revolution III).
My guess is that they know it is dying - they just want a little bit more money before discarding the RIAA as "the evil force that forced us to force the old model - but we have a new one now, and we became good and nice).
Water purifier pills are way cheaper. Still, most people don't keep a box of them "just in case" in their backpack (right next to the dry rations, water-proof matches and raincoat).
I hope you realize that by selling bridges, you authorize buyers to destroy them (they can destroy their property, right)?
Therefore, offering bridges that you do not own is supporting terrorism.
A blowjob worths $25? Sounds like a nice place...
The answer is, as for any good questions: depends.
A few rules what not to do:
A) "Phoning home required" and "online registration required" means "won't use this".
B) Crippling unregistered versions is a bad idea for business software - they need to spend more on IT support.
C) Time-limiting your software is a no-go - the limit will be exceeded in the middle of an important meeting/negotiation, and your software will be eradicated in two days.
D) No matter what you add, pirates can remove it, but legitimate users will suffer.
E) Never take your client's data as ransom - you will lose your customers if you do (in this particular case, a read-only access for unregistered clients could be acceptable).
A few rules what to do:
A) Printing nice license certificates will get you more money from typical business users.
B) "Phoning home for updates if accepted by user" and "online updates are available only for registered instances, offline updates are available only for registered cusmtomers" is OK - they feel they get support.
C) Giving volume licenses will save some headache for Business and for you (if they need 7 license, they will likely to buy a 10-pack for a price of 8 licenses).
D) Offer site licenses based on the size of the company, if they ask you about the price/discount - that way, your software has a chance to become "the internal standard".
D) Unique ID is a good idea, as long as it is visible to the user and the software is working even if not capable to phone home (a red "unregistered" label is a good reminder for legitimate users).
E) If you add time-locked registration codes, you should make it possible to load multiple codes and continue if at least one of them is valid.
F) Consider building customised instances for them - like embedding a background image of "Licensed to company X, for 10 seats".
G) Offer them absolutely copy-protection free versions for double-price.
H) An automated version check in the background (no serial, just checks an txt file via http) will give you some info if you have access to the web server logs and will be considered as a feature.
It is called sex. eknagy p.s. You really need to move out from the basement.
Well, the embassies should have used this new technology called "encryption". I heard that in the future, even browsers will support it...
eknagy
Press release:1 070
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref
eknagy
OK Troll, I'll bite.
In fact, I say that the rights of developers working under the GPL should be totally ignored as long as we're going to cheer on people who are getting sued for downloading music they didn't buy.
Music downloaders == GPL software users (can not breach the GPL).
Bootleggers == GPL violators (Getting money for other's work).
In my country, you get a 200 USD fine for the first one, and a year in prison for the second one.
Eknagy
p.s.: Yes, there are some people who would like us to beleive that "torrent" means "distribution". You don't have anything, then you download it, and by downloading it, you distribute it (although you did not have it in the beginning). Riiight.
A more user friendly way is to install something like nekjs.
If you need a new feature, just use the SourceForge service marketplace to find somebody to code it.
Disclaimer: I am involved and not innocent.
Elmar
Whether other languages succeed in this or not has no effect on the fact that Java promised it and didn't deliver.
:)
You are absolutely right, but relatively wrong. Maybe you really should get a degree in Sales
Elmar
In that sense, you are right - but could you sleep without testing your programs on the supported platforms with any other language/platform? I mean, can you show me anything that is better than Java on mentioned platforms and is less bug-free (while providing similar libraries)? Elmar
This seems to be an undead horse for me.
I wrote Java programs in a few hours that ran on Windows, Linux and AIX, and were UTF-8 capable.
I used three different brands of JREs (not MS, though) and my programs ran on all of them.
I had less security problems with Java than with ActiveX, Flash or PHP.
Seriously, I think you really need to get some training in how to determine if a horse is dead or not. Or, maybe, you should get a degree in Sales and stop being a troll.
Elmar
Ha!
/dev/colon >/proc/virtual/1
I always know there are security problems with sandboxes - and all the cats on the world surely know how to break them:
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