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RE: Download talkinghub?

Maybe Daniel assumed that talkinghub has a model similar to WordPress - talkinghub.com for service and talkinghub.org for the open source software to download and self-host.
June 15, 2006 9:11 AM
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Business on Open Source

While open source is good thing for big hardware companies, it's pretty ineffective to build business on it for a small company.

When I say ineffective I mean that there are better ways. I think it even would be a good test - can you develop something good enough that people will be ready to pay money for?

My own small open source library is http://dotuseful.sourceforge.net/ . It was good experience, dotuseful makes people happy: http://talkinghub.com/forum/tag/dotuseful/thanks-1004.html .

Can you build something as good that people would pay for?

by dkrukovsky
June 15, 2006 10:12 AM
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RE: Download talkinghub?

You may not sell the software, but the support or some custom features, installations, etc. It works.

June 15, 2006 10:40 AM
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Half of People are Ready to Broke Open Source License

Take a look at this interesting thread at JOS: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.355074.20

Frequently, open source authors want their credits to be presented in the software which uses their code. Someone asks if they can just .. break that requirement and use other's code with no respect to its author.

It is pretty sad to see over half of the people saying just to forget about code's author, "rewrite the code using own variable / method names" and such.

Hey people, have some respect to person which code you find useful.

Starting dotuseful ( http://dotuseful.sourceforge.net/ ) I expected people using my code to be grateful for what I had done. And to be grateful means respect requirements attached with code.

Starting or participating in open source project, have this case in mind.

by dkrukovsky
June 20, 2006 2:00 PM
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