I'm not sure it's such a good idea to endanger your business's only revenue stream. How about you keep the source closed, but make sure the support you offer is excellent (i.e. implementation of new features on request, being responsive to bug reports and actually fix bugs for customers who have already paid, porting to new architectures when there's demand)? Also, have your customers actually asked for the source code?
You have to consider whether switching to a free-code/pay-for-support business model would actually be a good idea. Is the business as it is now growing or declining? Is your product a cash cow or is it becoming obsolete, unable to bring in the big bucks in the near future?
If you catch and sell fish, it's good for business to give away some fish now and then, but a bad idea to give away your fishery (except in 2048, when it'll just be a liability).
(Boy, I wonder how this will get modded. Disclaimer: I am actually pro-open source, and use Linux almost exclusively, and I've hardly ever touched atrocities like MSIE and XP.)
Poopenmeyer: Garbage ball, huh? That sounds serious.
Farnsworth: Very serious, Mayor Poopenmeyer.
Poopenmeyer: I gotta be sure this isn't another scientific fraud like global warming or second-hand smoke. [He presses the intercom.] Send in my science advisor.
There are good books on that list, but you don't need to hype them by saying that they have been banned or censored by "the man." You should take the books as what they are.
Well, maybe such hype will get the kids to actually read them? They're banned by the man, you know! Gotta read 'em! Pretty clever actually.
Yes, I've noticed several times that I read a forum thread somewhere (usually found through Google), spotted a substantial error in one of the posts (relevant to the facts discussed), felt the urge to reply to correct the poster (in a polite, constructive way, of course), and so steer the discussion back on the right track, but just couldn't be bothered with registering for yet another forum.
The text-based config files are actually more user-friendly than registry-based configuration, because it offers another easy way to modify the configuration, and it is more easy to backup and deploy.
(Both storage methods allow for GUI tools to configure the software in question, they're equal in that respect.)
Look on the bright side, as a consequence of your loss of virtual money, you might be more on your guard against such too-good-to-be-true offers which would lose you real money. Consider it a lesson, a very cheap lesson at that.
Really, some day you'll look back at this and laugh.
I suppose a toll road or road tax would make for a better analogy. You pay to be able to use the road, but you don't get to block the road so other people can't use it anymore.
If you don't like it, you're free to not use it. GPL software can be seen as a set of tools to help you develop your application faster, but the price is that your application (which uses GPL components) has to be GPL as well.
It doesn't force you at all, it only forces you if you want to use GPL software in your own projects without paying the price. And that's just another kind of copyright infringement aka piracy.
I guess the writers were mirroring the US Government. See also the whole ``bringing democracy to the new Jaffa nation'' storyline, the Department of Homeworld Security, and keeping the other nations out of the loop. (But then again, why would the Russians want to send teams to other planets? The people there speak ENGLISH, for cryin' out loud!)
Actually, you can make a water-powered car in your own garage. You'll need a lot of water, though, and you'll constantly need to move the water from the bottom to the top of the engine.
If you want a Starcraft-like franchise, try Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop. Blizzard originally wanted Warcraft and Starcraft to be set in the GW universes, but GW stupidly denied them the licence, so they made up their own similar settings. Dawn of War is a pretty cool RTS game set in the WH40K universe. Try the demo sometime.
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Yeah, I recall that that security cleanup took 24 hours to complete ;-]
I'm not sure it's such a good idea to endanger your business's only revenue stream. How about you keep the source closed, but make sure the support you offer is excellent (i.e. implementation of new features on request, being responsive to bug reports and actually fix bugs for customers who have already paid, porting to new architectures when there's demand)? Also, have your customers actually asked for the source code?
You have to consider whether switching to a free-code/pay-for-support business model would actually be a good idea. Is the business as it is now growing or declining? Is your product a cash cow or is it becoming obsolete, unable to bring in the big bucks in the near future?
If you catch and sell fish, it's good for business to give away some fish now and then, but a bad idea to give away your fishery (except in 2048, when it'll just be a liability).
(Boy, I wonder how this will get modded. Disclaimer: I am actually pro-open source, and use Linux almost exclusively, and I've hardly ever touched atrocities like MSIE and XP.)
So, how does one differentiate between pedestrians and cars in a traffic jam?
Use a different coffee shop next time. Or the same, they'll never expect that (unless they expected you to think they'd never expect that)!
But the X makes it sound cool!
No, the inciting letter was delayed by 90 years ;-]
Well, they obviously aren't using it to fertilize their fields, with all the starvation going on there.
In the show Alias, the evil K-Directorate used KDE, which made sense to me ;-]
Poopenmeyer: Garbage ball, huh? That sounds serious.
Farnsworth: Very serious, Mayor Poopenmeyer.
Poopenmeyer: I gotta be sure this isn't another scientific fraud like global warming or second-hand smoke. [He presses the intercom.] Send in my science advisor.
It takes a frustrated fundie to even notice that...
Well, maybe such hype will get the kids to actually read them? They're banned by the man, you know! Gotta read 'em! Pretty clever actually.
Eh, in a few years, Google might stop agreeing to censor itself, and then they can't afford to ban Google entirely. Too many people will notice it...
Actually, ACs are fungible, or so it seems ;-]
Yes, you need much more than that. Perhaps a big Beowulf cluster of those slimline computers...
Yes, I've noticed several times that I read a forum thread somewhere (usually found through Google), spotted a substantial error in one of the posts (relevant to the facts discussed), felt the urge to reply to correct the poster (in a polite, constructive way, of course), and so steer the discussion back on the right track, but just couldn't be bothered with registering for yet another forum.
The text-based config files are actually more user-friendly than registry-based configuration, because it offers another easy way to modify the configuration, and it is more easy to backup and deploy.
(Both storage methods allow for GUI tools to configure the software in question, they're equal in that respect.)
Look on the bright side, as a consequence of your loss of virtual money, you might be more on your guard against such too-good-to-be-true offers which would lose you real money. Consider it a lesson, a very cheap lesson at that.
Really, some day you'll look back at this and laugh.
I suppose a toll road or road tax would make for a better analogy. You pay to be able to use the road, but you don't get to block the road so other people can't use it anymore.
If you don't like it, you're free to not use it. GPL software can be seen as a set of tools to help you develop your application faster, but the price is that your application (which uses GPL components) has to be GPL as well.
It doesn't force you at all, it only forces you if you want to use GPL software in your own projects without paying the price. And that's just another kind of copyright infringement aka piracy.
I guess the writers were mirroring the US Government. See also the whole ``bringing democracy to the new Jaffa nation'' storyline, the Department of Homeworld Security, and keeping the other nations out of the loop. (But then again, why would the Russians want to send teams to other planets? The people there speak ENGLISH, for cryin' out loud!)
Actually, you can make a water-powered car in your own garage. You'll need a lot of water, though, and you'll constantly need to move the water from the bottom to the top of the engine.
Hello grants and job security!
I'm pretty sure, but not 100% certain, that you missed the irony there...
It won't spawn cheap clones, at this graphics chip already is cheap.
If you want a Starcraft-like franchise, try Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop. Blizzard originally wanted Warcraft and Starcraft to be set in the GW universes, but GW stupidly denied them the licence, so they made up their own similar settings. Dawn of War is a pretty cool RTS game set in the WH40K universe. Try the demo sometime.
See also this comment.