Hi Bodan,
The license on the beta product is open-ended and we're committed to a
free version of the product in final release with at least as much
functionality as you see in the product today.
We're a business and have to find a way to make money. Like other
companies in this space, we're working on figuring out what those
paths look like but want to balance commercial offerings with other
contributions that anyone can pick up and use.
Martin
On Oct 10, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Bogdan M. Maryniuk wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Shevek <[email protected]>
wrote:
We're rather proud to announce an updated beta release of Karmasphere
Studio for Hadoop, a cross-platform desktop IDE for developing,
debugging, deploying and monitoring applications based on Hadoop.
[ ... ]
Download it all for free from http://www.hadoopstudio.org/ and have
as
much fun as we do!
I am wondering what does means word "free" in the "Install the free
beta and let us know how it works for you" sentence... Sounds like
"once it works for you, final release will not be free anymore" or
"free version will be very limited and to actually use it, you will
have to buy our binary result".
Scary...
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Kind regards, BM
Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely.
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