[CTJUG Forum] Open source in SA

[Ewald Horn]

Howdy...   A totally different thread, something that's been nagging at me for a while now.  I've been wanting to open-source a little POS (point-of-sale) application that I wrote for two clients. The thing is, right now they only pay their monthly support fee (R 90.00 :)  because the application refuses to generate reports if the license is not valid. Which brings me to the question : How on earth do I protect my income stream if I open-source the application.   I know a lot of folks say that I need to focus on the support and bill for that, but in the past 8 months I've had NO support issues. These are simple applications where not much goes wrong. I do charge for user training, but that's a once-off income. How do you go about ensuring a residual income whilst contributing to the open-source community ? Java is such a great tool to use and the Java community has vast open source resources that I would like to contribute to.   The current route I'm planning to take is to have two versions of the application, one single-user open source and one multi-user closed-source application. Does anyone have any experience in this field ?   Regards Ewald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to CTJUG-Forum@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---