RE: gEDA-dev: Re: gedaconsulting.com

["Timmerman, Bert" <bert_dot_timmerman-at-NOSPAMcorusgroup_dot_com>]

Hi,

Let me see if understand this correct:

If a user wishes to pay an "acceleration fee" (read donation) for adding
improvements to a GPL'ed tool he/she would pay for the acceleration, and
not pay for the GPL'ed tool that is the result of this acceleration.

IMO, that would still be better than paying for a "license to use"
(instead of an owner's license) in the micro$oft world.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

-----Original Message-----
From: geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org
[mailto:geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Karel Kulhavy
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:42 AM
To: gEDA developer mailing list
Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: Re: gedaconsulting.com

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:39:55PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Well, there are some of us who have already produced usable tools
> that we've already GPL'ed, and we now, after the fact, would like
> to squeeze some money out of them. We're no longer in a position
> at this point to hold back a GPL release until donations come in.

You could perfectly leverage this by writing an improvement and then
asking for donations for that.

CL<
> 
> But we are in a position to accept motivations to do some needed
> but unpleasant tasks, or to provide personalized support/service,
> etc. Hence the services slant to some of the suggestions that have
> gone by on this list.
> -- 
> Steve Williams                "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
> steve at icarus.com           But I have promises to keep,
> http://www.icarus.com         and lines to code before I sleep,
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> 
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