On Mon Jan 8 17:13:31 MET 2007, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > David Boddie wrote:
> > It seems a shame that the closed source approach is often seen as the > > only viable approach to commercial deployment of applications. Another > > approach that can also be successful is the open source plus service and > > support model, but this may not be compatible with existing business > > models involving certain kinds of software. :-( > > This fails to acknowledge that the person in charge of choosing a > technical solution (such as a GUI toolkit) and that in charge of > changing the commercial strategy of the company are not the same in any > non-trivial case. That's why I wrote the second paragraph: "It would be interesting to know whether you're forced to follow a traditional business model and find that a GPL-licensed application doesn't fit in with it, or whether you considered other business models and rejected them for other reasons." > Qt and PyQt work because they *do* offer a dual-licensing model which > fits any kind of business strategy. You don't need to convince me. ;-) David _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
