> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > To address the "who would pay for it?" question; the original
business
> > plan called for a per-seat license of a couple of hundred bucks per
> > seat, which would be somewhat like an MS Office price. We got
positive
> > feedback from a bunch of customers for that price point.
Unfortunately
> > when the product was done, the pricing geniuses couldn't figure out
> > how to do a per-seat deal and turned it into a tiered price monster
> > starting at something like $25K for the bottom tier. It's no wonder
> > nobody bought it at that sort of price.
>
> Sounds like a lot of "marketting" that I've heard of. And it
> seems that management of a company would rather throw the
> entire product into the dumpster rather than decide to
> release the source to the community with a disclaimer along
> the lines of "take this and do what you want. We can't sell
> it, but we've already spent the money to develop it. Don't
> expect any support from us, but think of us kindly if you use
> it and find it helpful to you." There may be some legal
> reason to do this. But such a system, perhaps released under
> the GPL (I like the GPL,
> generally) would likely generate some "good will" towards the company.
> Being a techie-type idiot, I just don't see why "giving it
> away for free" is somehow worse than just trashing it. Either
> way, the money is spent and none is coming in.
You're thinking logically again....... :-)
-jc-
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