Alexander Staubo wrote:
This statement piques me, for several reasons. I don't mind that Digital Creations publish products that are commercial and cost $, but I'd object to any Microsoft-ish pricing (eg., if you'd sold Confera for $1000 I'd definitely balk). So please be lenient, huh? But more than that I'd like to ask you what happens when you demote a commercial product to a free one. Isn't this unfair to all those people who might have bought it?
Maybe you should consider stratifying your product line into "free" and "subscription". If I join the Zope Gold Club for $500/year, I get all your heavy-duty client/server stuff for free. Sort of a "fixed rate" thing.
Digicool is offering to give you stuff for free, and you want to pay for it? I think you're kinda missing the point of the OpenSource model - selling support, expertise, and "the feature you requested goes in FIRST since you paid", not software as such. The problem with Microsoft isn't their prices - it's that their software is closed and proprietary. -- Itamar - itamars@ibm.net -----------------------------o-------------------------------------o Sealingwax Greeting Cards | The only good morning is a dead one | http://www.sealingwax.com/ | --Richard Stallman |