On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Nov 24, 6:06 am, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Oh, I have no problem with making money by using open source software, > when > > it's done in the manner that companies like Red Hat do it. It's the use > to > > lock down some piece of proprietary software even more than it already is > > that seems, at the very least, ironic. > > A license server does not necessarily mean restriction. We have a > small in-house app which is also handled via a license server. It just > records, who uses the app and charges 25€ per year and user on the > cost center of the using department. No restriction whatsoever. > Not enabling people to use it for free = restriction, given that marginal increased use by them does not correspond to marginal increased costs to you. (If it means marginal increased costs for support, why not sell the support and let them use it for free unsupported if they choose to? Charge per incident, or for a maintenance plan, or whatever. Red Hat makes millions doing that.) > To say something productive for the discussion: > > I use Clojure to drive our regular quality reporting. It takes > information from different source, mainly different SAP systems but > also supplier data provided via Excel. Everything is imported into > database and after a lot of JOINs, SELECTs and UNIONs a pdf containing > the charts with a home-grown analysis is generated. The charts and pdf > are still work in progress, but everything else works nicely so far. There's a Clojure or a Java library for generating pdf? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
