I for one don't disagree with dual licencing but it leaves us with 2 useless products as we cannot use the CD version - as I said before its gone from one really good product to which will be no use - we as a company have no problem with spending money on software we use plesk for our shared hosting - but to invest money in a product such as this firstly requires it to be usable (which it isn't) and secondly requires a strong company behind it and that has yet to be seen - imagine investing in freeVSD and Idaya only for them to disappear because commercialisation doesn't work.
To make it work requires the type of investment seen in comapnies such as plesk and ensim. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Consultant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:51 PM Subject: Re: GPL or not? > Just to show I'm not taking sides :) > > eZpublisher just went to a dual licensing system too. For more info check > out: > > http://developer.ez.no/home/licence/ > > Regards > > T. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Sellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:44 PM > Subject: RE: GPL or not? > > > > > > > proVSD will be based on freeVSD... in what way ? Will proVSD use > > > the same code, > > > but simply extend it ? If that's the case, proVSD has to be > > > released as GPL as > > > well. > > > > > > > Actually this is incorrect. For an example of how dual-licensing of > software > > can lead to better software for everyone follow this: > > http://www.winterspeak.com/columns/102901.html > > > > > People who discovered freeVSD through some kind of link were > > > always able to > > > download it and try it. But when you start pulling everything > > > away from people > > > who 'may be interested', they will immediately back off. They > > > want to try the > > > software before they spend money, even if it's very cheap. And I > > > don't think you > > > can blame them, can you ? > > > > People are still free to try the software. Everything save for the latest > > release is available in easily installable packages. Only the latest > > release, for the time being, requires the additional overhead of fetching > > and building. > > > > > > > > Personally, I'm very interested in deploying freeVSD on a large > > > scale, but it > > > needs a lot more work before I can get that done. I'm willing to > > > implement these > > > features : > > > - Load balancing for Apache, Qmail and MySQL (all 3 tested so far > > > and working > > > fine outside freeVSD) > > > - Failover system guaranteeing 100% uptime for Apache, Qmail and > > > MySQL with > > > shared disk array (MySQL is tough on shared disk array though, > > > still working on > > > that) > > > - Use of a distributed file system with replication, again adding to the > > > redundancy of the solution > > > These are the reasons why I was asking for a clear layout of how > > > freeVSD was > > > designed last week. I had the intention to begin development as > > > soon as possible. > > > But seeing how things are evolving now, I might as well throw all > > > those ideas > > > away and start building a new virtual server system, specifically > > > designed for > > > 100% availability. > > > > > > > As I have previously said, freeVSD is not going away. If you were > intending > > to contribute code you would have to be using CVS in any event, and you > > still can. > > > > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support > List -------------------------- > > Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support > > Unsubscribe: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support > > Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- > Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support > Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support > Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
