Am 17.02.2010 01:16, schrieb Mark Storer: > Efforts were made to make this change more prominent, though those > efforts may have fallen short (license.txt? whoops). In particular, > the move from "com.lowagie" to "com.itextpdf" coincided with the > license change, as did a jump in version number (from 2.x to 5.x). > Folks were forced to change their source. The idea was to get folks to > realize what they were getting into. IDEs like Eclipse with its "Quick Fix" feature makes it very easy to change namespaces and it just appeared natural to me that com.lowagie could change to com.<somethingmoredescriptive> anytime be it just because Bruno Lowagie is by far not the only person who is contributing to iText those days.
> In general, it seems (as somone who has done a small project or two > under/for/through it) that iTextSoftware is more about contracting > features to be built *for* third parties, rather than contracting > features to be built *by* third parties. > Ya got it backwards. ;) > I read that sentence five times but could not make sense out of it (may be because I'm not a native speaker). Our company uses iText to work with PDFs. Sometimes iText does not have a feature we would like it to have and we do not have the time and/or expertise to add it. So we would like to pay iTextSoftware Corporation to add this feature. Are you saying this is not possible? > For example, while iText cannot "Linearize" a PDF, it's quite capable of > signing and password open/add/remove operations. A server license of PDFLib > PLOP + DS runs another $1000. > There may be some areas in which iText is better than PDFlib but we do not use those features (for example, we do not work with forms at all, we just build static PDFs). My point was that with PDFlib I can buy a software via an online store, pay a fixed price and get a fixed functionality. With (the new) iText there's not even a price list and from what I can see you are determining the price on a case-by-case basis. Maybe you are expecting to make more money like that (if Microsoft or Adobe comes to ask you about a quote they may pay more than my company), but I don't consider that a "transparent" business model. Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
