Ryan Lane wrote: >> You really shouldn't make it open source. If your business model at all >> involves making money directly off these extensions, then open-sourcing >> it will remove any barrier whatsoever to people paying you for them. >> It's simply absurd. >> >> > > All of my extensions are open source. I have made money off of most of > them by doing support. I make money doing support even though I > generally give support away for free. People are willing to pay to > have faster turnaround, and to have features added that are more work > than I'm willing to do in my spare time for free. > > Open sourcing the extensions makes it far more likely that people will > use them. It'll be more likely that they'll get improved, and > maintained, and that features will be added more quickly. That is a > perfect situation to offer support services. Since these extensions > are for enterprise environments, it is likely that support will sell > fairly well. > > Respectfully, > > Ryan Lane > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > Ryan, see my reply to Boris. For developers that is correct. I am not a developer.
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