Hi Tzafrir!
Good answer - just a few nits.
On Friday 28 November 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:07:09PM +0200, Tal Abir wrote:
Source forge is making money from hosting your utility,
SourceForge makes osme money form adds. But also from selling the
proprietary
I guess that small utilities are hard to make money from.
That might explain the recurring answer of don't be greedy.
Why code isn't like poetry?
If someone makes money from some code he should pay whoever written that
code.
The same as shironet pays Akum, Sourceforge should pay the projects it's
Hi,
Lets say you wrote a utility that may be useful to others.
Why would you open source it?
How can you earn money from opening the code and giving it for free?
Source forge is making money from hosting your utility, Wikipedia is making
money from documenting it, what is left for the developer?
2008/11/28 Tal Abir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Lets say you wrote a utility that may be useful to others.
Why would you open source it?
How can you earn money from opening the code and giving it for free?
Source forge is making money from hosting your utility, Wikipedia is making
money from
I think the question is why not open source?
The question is not how you make money from open source, although this is
not always obvious, you can see many companies who does make money from open
source.
But how do you make money from closed source? this remains a mystery to me.
I would be happy
I would be happy to participate in such discussion but would you open a full
scale company for earning money from a little utility.
I don't think it will hold.
People today earn money just from writing blogs (though publishing a piece
of code and then earn money from blogging about it sounds like
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 06:07:09PM +0200, Tal Abir wrote:
Hi,
Lets say you wrote a utility that may be useful to others.
Is it useful for you as well?
Why would you open source it?
There are several reasons.
Do you think you can actually make money from selling the software as
a
