Hi, * Gunnar Wolf <[email protected]> [2009-01-05 19:19-0500]: > Hi, > > I am forwarding here a conversation I have been maintaining with with > Hongli Lai, from Phusion (the great coders that brought us > Passenger/mod_rails). I think this can be a great service (although > commercial) for some users.
Thanks for forwarding this Gunnar. I think this service looks very interesting, although I do not see how it could be profitable. In my humble opinion the company should release it as free software, as I believe that their return on investment would be significantly higher if they did this than they could possibly achieve through an attempt to recuperate costs by squeezing out small fees over a long period of time. How? Well quite simply it would greatly help the Debian community provide quality packaged, up-to-date ruby libraries and this in turn would help the ruby community grow in significant ways. This would fold-back into the greater community as positive support and serve as better marketing than any advertisements could possibly provide. I believe, and I suspect many others believe as well, that opening up this service, or making this software free so that others can use it without cost, would greatly help these two communities and this company would win ten-fold in garnering a significant amount of credibility and respect from the community that it is part of. Micah
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