At 8:06 PM -0400 on 5/7/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MP0werd: I like the idea, however I hope opencard itself is not over 2
megabytes
Anthony: I don't know how to blow 2 megs on an app. Ask Uli. Maybe he
does.
(hopefully should fit in a disk). I could get a CDR burner and sell
At 9:42 PM -0400 on 5/6/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 5/6/99 7:11:10 PM, you wrote:
Anthony: Why not from selling the product? Open Source does not mean we
can't sell it; ask the Debian and RedHat folks sometime.
Anthony: Of course, anyone can sell it.
One difference,
MP0werd wrote:
RedHat and Debian CDs don't just
contain the Gnu Unix/linux OS, they also have special programs made
by the company. These themselves are not under Gnu license, so that's what
you pay for.
I fully agree! One might also note that they also sell manuals which they
make and print,
Alain : (1) Will members be able to resell OpenCard on CDROM, as-is,
making money by selling the convience of not having to download it ?
Alain : (2) Or will they bundle some other stuff with it to add enough
value to their offering to justify forking over money for it ?
Alain : (3) Or will
Alain : Which brings us to the sticky issue of how the participants of
our groups will make some profit from the work they are contributing to
:
Alain : (1) Will members be able to resell OpenCard on CDROM, as-is,
making money by selling the convience of not having to download it ?
Anthony: For say $20, one could get an OpenCard
"suite" that would have stacks for certain tasks
included. Yes, one could go download the stacks, but
then one would have to find them first. And we all
know that finding time+downloading time over a modem
can be quite long.
Alain : You're
