On 21 Oct 2009, at 12:12, Peter Jones wrote:
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?
It's an interesting model, and one that Sun are already pursuing with their Java App Store (http://store.java.com). I guess if that goes well we might see other Sun app stores, although the financial reality is that there would be a much smaller market for an OpenSolaris app store.
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