Ginsu Warrior wrote:
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> A new direction for open source
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>> Software vendors consider switch to fee-based model
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>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Tenable officials said Nessus 3.0 would still be free to users, but
>> | the company would begin selling technical support contracts and would
>> | charge other firms that want to use the newest version of code in their
>> | products or services.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The OpenBSD Project develops software for the OpenBSD operating system,
>> | which runs in every federal agency and on every Linux- and Unix-based
>> | computer worldwide. The group also develops OpenSSH, the most common
>> | application for encrypting Internet traffic.
>> |
>> | OpenBSD Project developers want about $100,000 a year so they can focus
>> | on the software without worrying about money, said Theo de Raadt, the
>> | group's leader. He estimates that the project has saved software
>> | companies as much as $1 billion in development costs.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.fcw.com/article95741-07-17-06-Print
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> Talk about Bait and Switch method to screw over users.
>
> --"A move to closed source is part of the business plan for some
> open-source companies, Cox said. Companies and developers can issue a
> rough version of the software in open source, he said. Once the
> software becomes prominent, the originators can make it closed source
> and provide extra features at a cost."--
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>
> More proof that there is no money or business model to write free
> software. If free software was able to pay decent salary then there
> would not be this problem. Most of these open source hipocrites
> probably write Microsoft Windows software during day to earn money.
>
>
>
> ---"Open-source software developers that move to a closed-source
> licensing model to help pay their bills.
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> No more working for free - It's not surprising that some open-source
> software companies consider closing their source code.
They can't close what is already out there. If they do this, I predict that
a company will take the source, either keep it BSD or make it GPL, and
release "FreeSSH."
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> OpenBSD Project developers want about $100,000 a year so they can focus
> on the software without worrying about money. T-shirt sales, individual
> donations of about $40 each and a few $10,000 donations from Mozilla,
> GoDaddy and other organizations, de Raadt said. Red Hat, Novell, IBM,
> Sun Microsystems and other software giants have refused to donate, he
> added."--
I'm surprised by this, but who knows what the facts are.
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>
> "Anything free is worth what you pay for it" - Robert Heinlein
In this case Heinlein is dead wrong, the older I get, it seems, more often
than not, the only things worth having are those things which are free in
the first place.
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