[Zope-dev] The Product API is not easy to use!
Josh Zeidner
jmz_phylogenic@hotmail.com
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:08:04 EDT
>That's Michel.
-- sorry about that...
> > 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?
>
>We consult for a fee. This has allways been our business model. During
>the past 3 years, we have developed a killer web application in Python.
>So instead of keeping it closed source and having only a dozen
>customers, we give it away to get hundreds. Our clients have never
>payed for 'the software' just 'the solution'.
-- so possibly you see Zope as a sort of "residue" of your companies real
products( solutions providing )?
> > Whats to stop a company such as mine to take Zope
> > and totally
> > bypass Digital Creations? Has such a thing happened before?
>
>Go ahead. You are welcome to use any part of Zope in your own product.
>In fact, we *want* you to do this. If you do, however, you must comply
>with the license:
>You could concievably use our software and not credit us and not tell
>us, but then you would have to deal with the snarling killer dogs that
>Hadar hires for his lawers.
-- therefore you count your companies assets not in patents or copyrights,
but rather in your ability to use and leverage existing technology like
Zope.
> > On a less related topic... is Frontier( or any of the
> > products listed
> > above) similar to Zope?
>I've never used frontier, so I don't know. However, I do know that
>Frontier and Zope play well together because they speak a similar
>protocol, XML-RPC.
-- Is this the new version of Zope you are talking about?
-- when will this be available for WinNT?
-- How does digital creations cover the overhead involved for doing things
like packaging releases... coordinating Zope site, ect...
-- 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?
-- jmz
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