Autonomy just announced Q1 results with $194.2 million in revenue, apparently a record.
Developers: push your product managers to pay reasonable licensing fees. It's not easy and they'll bicker but giving a sharp nudge to them, and making them at least try, can make a real difference. Michael. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mark Storer <msto...@autonomy.com> wrote: > I suspect you're thinking of me. I maintain a fork that was originally > from "paulo 144", and was (mostly) ported to 2.0.4 relatively recently. > > It's really not for Public Consumption. Lots of Cardiff-specific cruft > in there, along with a couple patches/features that were rejected from > the trunk because they caused problems when you use iText in a way other > than the way I do. > > Yes, we run the unit tests, but those tests (clearly) aren't all that > comprehensive. That's what the users are for! :/ > > Autonomy (of which Cardiff is a part) has a "we don't pay for 3rd party > licenses" thing going on. With that "policy" in place, we can never use > the post-AGPL version. Or can we? Should it come to it, I suspect we > might be able to trade some developer hours (mine) for a license, but it > has not come to that, so we haven't explored it with iTextSoftware > (yet). > > --Mark Storer > Senior Software Engineer > Cardiff.com > > import legalese.Disclaimer; > Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Hoffer [mailto:dhoff...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:09 AM >> To: Post all your questions about iText here >> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in >> terms of License >> >> I'm not trying to vote for a fork just pointing out that >> someone in this thread (or recent thread) said they DID fork; >> so if your thinking of doing the same you might want to share >> resources with one that already did the fork. >> >> -Dave >> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM, 1T3XT info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote: >> > Michael Olenick wrote: >> >> People -- Call or write to Bruno's sales agent. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > I've had a speed course in economics at >> http://www.vlerick.com/ last >> > year, discovering there's more to the IT business than writing code. >> > >> > It's all about the business model, not just the business model used >> > for iText, but also the business model of the end user/developer. >> > >> > You've explained that very well. We are using a license (be it the >> > AGPL, or a commercial license) because that's better for >> everyone. If >> > you choose the AGPL, you share your code. If you choose the >> commercial >> > license, you share some of your revenue. >> > >> > The situation before the AGPL was not healthy. At some point, I had >> > the impression I was being suffocated: plenty of people >> were mailing >> > me personally, DEMANDING a solution for their problem. I >> didn't have >> > any time to think about new code anymore, and that's not >> good: a good >> > product has to offer continuity! >> > >> > Recently, I attended an event where I had a talk with a CEO of a >> > company who had been using iText for years. He said that he was now >> > looking for another free product "because he could no >> longer use iText." >> > I asked him how much switching to another library would >> cost in terms >> > of development, and what he would do if that other free library >> > decided to change its license too (because it's easy to run a F/OSS >> > product if you're not successful, but it's a lot of hard >> work as soon >> > as people actually start using it). >> > He hadn't thought about that yet, but I saw that he realized that >> > would probably cost him far more than to have another chat >> with sales. >> > So it goes... >> > -- >> > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA >> > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info >> > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > -------- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > iText-questions mailing list >> > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> > >> > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/ >> > >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/ >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.814 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2842 - Release >> Date: 05/10/10 23:26:00 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/
