I did not make your point :) You have to have some sort of niche in order to get your product to be seen as a viable solution/alternative. Who cares if Adobe adopts some of your code if they are still charging $6000 per cpu for enterprise licensing. Your product would be open source and you could still have a enterprise edition that you charge for albeit at a lower price.
Doug B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gert Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > That's my point... > > Thanks Doug... > > Doug Brown schrieb: > >> If we open source Railo and we would be faster in some >cases than other > >> vendors, they could easily adapt our code > >> > > > > Sure they could adopt your code and make their product faster, but they > > would also still be charging a wholloping price for their product. > > > > Doug B. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gert Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:17 AM > > Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > > > > > > > >> Don't get me wrong, I do not have anything against open source. BUT we > >> are yet to small and I don't think that the community will dig into our > >> tens of thousands of lines of code first to understand it and second to > >> fix it. If Adobe would do it, then this would be different. > >> If we open source Railo and we would be faster in some cases than other > >> vendors, they could easily adapt our code > >> > >> And just like James posted. If you have a decompiler etc. it is already > >> open source. > >> > >> Greetings / Grüsse > >> Gert Franz > >> Customer Care > >> Railo Technologies GmbH > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> www.railo.ch > >> > >> Join our Mailing List / Treten Sie unserer Mailingliste bei: > >> deutsch: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/railo/ > >> english: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/ > >> > >> > >> > >> Doug Brown schrieb: > >> > >>> A huge difference!! Number one is that you have the entire community > >>> > > helping > > > >>> to develop the project, so bug fixes and features are done in record > >>> > > time > > > >>> instead of waiting on a "few" developers to bring you the things that > >>> > > you > > > >>> need the most. Why has mySql done so well? Gee I will answer that > >>> > > myself. > > > >>> MySql offers an open source product and were able to grow their client > >>> > > base > > > >>> while at the same time having the people that downloaded their software > >>> > > also > > > >>> develop their software and reduce their costs. Free and closed source > >>> > > simply > > > >>> means that we have to wait for you to implemnt things and that it takes > >>> longer for community acceptance. > >>> > >>> Doug B. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "Gert Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:15 AM > >>> Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> why? what's the difference between open source and free? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Rick Root schrieb: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> For what it's worth, if Railo went open source.. now *THAT* would be > >>>>> interesting... > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
