On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, Josh Zeidner wrote:
Maybe a better question would be : are there products from business organizations that are modelled more traditionally( revenue obtained through licenseing ). Examples of which might be listed above. On a similar topic, how does Digital Creations obtain revenue?
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-- so possibly you see Zope as a sort of "residue" of your companies real products( solutions providing )?
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Whats to stop a company such as mine to take Zope and totally bypass Digital Creations? Has such a thing happened before?
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-- therefore you count your companies assets not in patents or copyrights, but rather in your ability to use and leverage existing technology like Zope.
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On a less related topic... is Frontier( or any of the products listed above) similar to Zope?
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-- Is this the new version of Zope you are talking about? -- when will this be available for WinNT?
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-- How does digital creations cover the overhead involved for doing things like packaging releases... coordinating Zope site, ect...
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-- It is my contention that the software industry is moving in the direction of "Open Source" licensing. However, I have found that companies cannot let thier mission-critical systems ride on the development efforts of three million hobbyists( "a thousand voices" ). Systems( +languages? ) must be created to allow for efficient collaboration and Quality Assurance( a development democracy!!! ). Do you have any ideas in mind for how this work could be carried out?
Josh, I see no questions, in your seemingly interminable series of them, which you couldn't answer for yourself simply by visiting www.zope.org and *reading* the information contained there -- much like most of the rest of the subscribers to this list have done.