On Tuesday 12 December 2006 09:10, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > To rub my ego and personal preferences I would suggest here > the system of making money on free technology which I > designed myself. Develop something, publish details how cool > it is and then collect donations until people pay the > development and then release it under GPL/GFDL. It's not > theoretical, it practically works on Ronja.
That looks like a very commercial business model. Develop a product using your resources or investor's resources. Then sell it. It is just a slightly different kind of sale. Like commercial, it requires up-front investment on speculation. Also, you leave it open to some entitity that might pay to NOT have it released. There are some companies in the EDA business that have a track record of doing that. What is needed is a way to fund during development. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
