Hi, Let me see if understand this correct:
If a user wishes to pay an "acceleration fee" (read donation) for adding improvements to a GPL'ed tool he/she would pay for the acceleration, and not pay for the GPL'ed tool that is the result of this acceleration. IMO, that would still be better than paying for a "license to use" (instead of an owner's license) in the micro$oft world. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karel Kulhavy Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:42 AM To: gEDA developer mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: Re: gedaconsulting.com On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:39:55PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote: > 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. > > Well, there are some of us who have already produced usable tools > that we've already GPL'ed, and we now, after the fact, would like > to squeeze some money out of them. We're no longer in a position > at this point to hold back a GPL release until donations come in. You could perfectly leverage this by writing an improvement and then asking for donations for that. CL< > > But we are in a position to accept motivations to do some needed > but unpleasant tasks, or to provide personalized support/service, > etc. Hence the services slant to some of the suggestions that have > gone by on this list. > -- > Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. > steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, > http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, > http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep." > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
