gEDA-dev: Re: gedaconsulting.com

[Karel Kulhavy]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 04:39:55PM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
> Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> 
> > To rub my ego and personal preferences I would suggest here the system of
> > making money on free technology which I designed myself. Develop something,
> > publish details how cool it is and then collect donations until people pay the
> > development and then release it under GPL/GFDL.  It's not theoretical, it
> > practically works on Ronja.
> 
> Well, there are some of us who have already produced usable tools
> that we've already GPL'ed, and we now, after the fact, would like
> to squeeze some money out of them. We're no longer in a position
> at this point to hold back a GPL release until donations come in.

You could perfectly leverage this by writing an improvement and then
asking for donations for that.

CL<
> 
> But we are in a position to accept motivations to do some needed
> but unpleasant tasks, or to provide personalized support/service,
> etc. Hence the services slant to some of the suggestions that have
> gone by on this list.
> -- 
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> 
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