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Is it a better bet to release under GPL and attempt to leverage market share to monetize something (service or otherwise)? Is it better to develop in Java/Mono/Gtk+ and hope that KDE users will be a targetable audience for your commercial software? Or is it best in the long run to pay the Qt license and hope that the revenue stream eventually pays off?Īs Eric’s post points out, desktop Linux is not a friendly space for commercial ISVs at the moment. Did anyone really make money off of Windows 95 shareware? It’s tough because it is likely in the current climate that someone will come along and marginalize your company’s IP by releasing a similar product under a GPL-compatible license. Business has never been easy for the small ISV. It is hard to say as the pricing model only supports two extremes today and I cannot find any information on what the future pricing models would be.”
“It is perhaps the case where Trolltech does not feel it is economically profitable to support small ISVs and other small players. broadside which seems to be a very common geek communication modus operandi.
I would hope to see an evolution of the communication beyond broadside vs.
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Right now, sorting out the GPL and the focus on how it is supposed to create economies and ecologies is the most important thing happening in the software world.
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Is the focus on “no IP + services” type of companies or will the GPL evolve to respect the IP that is inherent in the copyrighted code (beyond the code itself)? It is an important time for FOSS to hammer out what the GPL really means. It will take another few broadsides back and forth to get some learning most likely. I don’t see much compromise in Tim’s viewpoints vs. It is hard to say as the pricing model only supports two extremes today and I cannot find any information on what the future pricing models would be. It is perhaps the case where Trolltech does not feel it is economically profitable to support small ISVs and other small players. Also many small ISVs are groups within big companies that do not have unlimited budgets. The bulk of ISVs are small companies, not the big corporations that Qt is apparently priced for. So I believe there is some middle ground I think for Trolltech’s pricing to come down for ISVs. So making Qt products is economically impossible for us. However, we are not rich enough to afford Trolltech’s commercial license. It would marginalize our intellectual property which is our core competency, not services. We could not survive using simply the GPL plus services. Tim has many good points when you consider everything from a Linux-centric big picture viewpoint. Eric has many good points when you consider everything from a Trolltech-centric little picture viewpoint.
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