You might have a point there. RedHat seem to have quite a functional business model going on, perhaps zope could borrow some ideas from there. I know that many people that currently run Linux (Home and work) would no do so except for RedHat, Suse or Mandrake.
Adrian... -- Adrian Hungate All views expressed in this email are those of the whole world, however some people don't realise this yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joachim Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeffrey P Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Open Letter to zope-dev > > Where's the $99 version of Zope? The $499? The $1499? The > > $25999? Zope Corp hasn't pulled that card out like many other > > vendors have. There are actually many pieces of Zope that were > > initially commercial add-ons (or intended to be) that are now all > > open source. > > I sometimes have the feeling that we might NEED a $xx(x) version of Zope -- > a ready-to-go, preconfigured Zope distro with a decent manual. > > Not for us, the community, but for the average user. O.k., we could do it > for free, but would there be a Red Hat or SuSE Linux distro if it was > totally for free? It even CAN be downloaded for free, and still people are > willing to pay for it. And the money is needed. Without the support from the > major Linux distributors, projects like XFree would probably be in big > trouble ... > > This is a totally different business model than the one Zope Corp. is using > right now, but it might help refinancing the overhead a good community needs > to have ... > > Just my 2 (euro)cents ... > > Joachim > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )