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" <joe@iuveno-net.de> To: "Jeffrey P Shell" <jeffrey@cuemedia.com>; <zope-dev@zope.org> 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
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