Sometime ago I encouraged the opensolaris community to consider launching an apps store to act as a catalyst for application development on the platform aimed at the small to midsize ISV and developers. Ubantu have also realised the issues of a proprietory software community on a free opensource platform as the model of the furure.The news that ubantu has also accepted a similar model comes as no surprise. http://www.itpro.co.uk/616402/ubuntu-to-launch-cloud-appliance-store
The original proposition to the opensolaris was to charge nothing for the software but charge a flat rate of one dollar for all downloads for admin costs etc.Once approved developers would receive 50 cents per download for the first six months then after the code would be free under opensource license.The whole aim was to reward the small to midsize developers to produce a wider veriety innovation of apps on a pro bono approach.Without such critical initiatives opensource will not compete in the future...perhaps looking at this again urgently is the way to go? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
