Re: gEDA-dev: gedaconsulting.com

[al davis <ad106-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 09:10, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> To rub my ego and personal preferences I would suggest here
> the system of making money on free technology which I
> designed myself. Develop something, publish details how cool
> it is and then collect donations until people pay the
> development and then release it under GPL/GFDL.  It's not
> theoretical, it practically works on Ronja.

That looks like a very commercial business model.  Develop a 
product using your resources or investor's resources.  Then 
sell it.  It is just a slightly different kind of sale.

Like commercial, it requires up-front investment on speculation.

Also, you leave it open to some entitity that might pay to NOT 
have it released.  There are some companies in the EDA business 
that have a track record of doing that.

What is needed is a way to fund during development.


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