I think it's a terrible idea to charge money for "drivers" to commercial databases. I know you need to make money, but the value add should come from software you build on top of jooq, profilers, IDE integrations, debug tools, etc. Dont shoot yourself in the foot now. You have a good vision and jooq can turn into so much more that you can sell and do consulting for. The magical feature of Ruby on Rails was activerecord. You have a magical feature here with jooq. Just build some more things around it.
I know people who buy oracle can probably spare a few bucks, but what your doing is now making my open source product that is free (as in beer) and then suddenly adding a cost to it. I really really think your are going to alienate a lot of users based on perception and principal. It doesn't matter that your probably right that the cost shouldn't be that big of a deal, but people will perceive it that way and not adopt jooq. I have to think twice now about using jooq. Which is really upsetting because I really like it and do think its a better than everything that is out there. It's a sad day.... Darren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jOOQ User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
