Re: Paying for Open source was Eloquence with NVDA
- From: Dave <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:04:43 -0800
The only areas where I could see open source being commercially viable
is if you had some other revenue model other than directly selling the
software (i.e. via bundled hardware/ad sales). Open source in it of
itself poses a problem in that any competitors could easily anticipate
anything you do and nullify your app's distinguishing features. A
hybrid (open/closed) source model may also help here. It also doesn't
help that most open source projects attract the more technically
minded of us and it's fairly easy for us to compile the projects
ourselves. Also, open source projects tend to be less friendly to
common users since they usually suffer from a higher concentration of
"developer" design so user interface design, quality, simplicity, and
overall polish/ease of use may be lacking.
If it's all in fun or the greater good then no problem :).
On 11/23/10, QuentinC <quentinc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paying $10 or $100 is not a problem, if the company you pay is honnest and
> if you know that those dollars really go to improve the software as the
> users ask, and if you are free to use the software you bough whenever you
> want and with whatever you want.
>
> But paying those dollars if you actually know that they will only swell the
> boss' wallet, or if you pay but already know that you will have to pay again
> in 3, 6 or 12 months, sorry, but no. That's an abuse.
>
> To use again the image proposed by another guy on the list:
> when you buy a toaster, the seller doesn't have to know if you are going to
> use it with white or black bread.
> Nobody would imagine a toaster which would work only for white bread but not
> for black without letting you being aware of that particularity, because the
> constructor has intentionnaly decided that for you.
>
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