I have bills to pay. I guess this makes me a capitalist.
If you pay money for my stuff, you're entitled to all the documentation I can give you, including the source code, for the purpose of figuring out what I've done, and how to work it. You can't say you're getting that from Micro$hit!
Want help in making it go? Well, I'll try, but you have to realize that, while I *do* feel that you're entitled, for your money, to have something which works, there comes a point where it makes more economic sense for me to just give you yer money back than mess around with you forever.
Wanna port it to some bizarre (non-wonbloze) platform? Well, I'd be interesteed in that, for the sake of 1) getting you yeour money's worth and 2) penetrating whatever market.
Wanna modify it? Don't expect me to be interested in debugging it for you after you've pissed in it. On the other hand, if you come up with an improvement I like, I'll be interested in buying it *from you*!
Wanna *Sell* it? Well, it's MINE, not *yours*, and I'll make a distribution agreement with you, but I'll DEFINATELY want a piece of the action. How big a piece will depend on *MY* assessment of how much work I put into it vs. how much work you'll put into selling it, and for how much. (A lot of musicians feel real good if they can get "a dollar a copy".)
Maybe after a couple years, after I've made my nut, I'll be ready to throw it out on the "free" market. Maybe I'll throw out the 90% version, in the hopes of drawing attention to the edition I want money for.
It's *mine*, I'll license it however I please. You have the option to buy it, or *not*. I have to provide something that's *worth* yer hard-earned bucks. Again, I think you'll have to agree that this is *not* what's available from Micro$hit!
But I have bills to pay. For the most part, I can't *give* it away. Hooray for those who can!
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I have bills to pay.
I guess this makes me a capitalist.
If you pay money for my stuff, you're entitled to all the documentation I can give you, including the source code, for the purpose of figuring out what I've done, and how to work it. You can't say you're getting that from Micro$hit!
Want help in making it go? Well, I'll try, but you have to realize that, while I *do* feel that you're entitled, for your money, to have something which works, there comes a point where it makes more economic sense for me to just give you yer money back than mess around with you forever.
Wanna port it to some bizarre (non-wonbloze) platform? Well, I'd be interesteed in that, for the sake of 1) getting you yeour money's worth and 2) penetrating whatever market.
Wanna modify it? Don't expect me to be interested in debugging it for you after you've pissed in it. On the other hand, if you come up with an improvement I like, I'll be interested in buying it *from you*!
Wanna *Sell* it? Well, it's MINE, not *yours*, and I'll make a distribution agreement with you, but I'll DEFINATELY want a piece of the action. How big a piece will depend on *MY* assessment of how much work I put into it vs. how much work you'll put into selling it, and for how much. (A lot of musicians feel real good if they can get "a dollar a copy".)
Maybe after a couple years, after I've made my nut, I'll be ready to throw it out on the "free" market. Maybe I'll throw out the 90% version, in the hopes of drawing attention to the edition I want money for.
It's *mine*, I'll license it however I please. You have the option to buy it, or *not*. I have to provide something that's *worth* yer hard-earned bucks. Again, I think you'll have to agree that this is *not* what's available from Micro$hit!
But I have bills to pay. For the most part, I can't *give* it away.
Hooray for those who can!
Mikie