> In an effort to give something back to this group (which is interested in
Open
> Source issues) I offer this link to a white paper from a company that
*sells*
> (not free) software as source code. This is a point of view I've never
seen
> expressed anywhere outside of my tiny mind. I've not finished reading the
> paper yet, but I thought you folks might find it interesting.
>
>
> http://www.messagingdirect.com/publications/IC-6021.html
Not a new idea actually -- back in the golden days of shareware, a number of
products worked this way. Try it for free, binary only, buy it to get the
full sources. I used to work for a now-defunct company called Innovative
Data Concepts, and all of our products were distributed this way. The
products (some of you may possibly remember them, if you worked in MS-DOS)
included TesSerRact (a library for making TSR programs) and TCXL (a library
for building text-based user interfaces).
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Dave Seidel
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