Revenue and the Open Source edition

RM richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon May 2 12:25:34 EDT 2016


I am well aware that the Free (GPL) version is amazingly valuable - I 
use it every day.

All I am making a noise about is the vast difference between GPL and 
Commercial.

R.

On 2.05.2016 19:15, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> RM wrote:
>
> > ...paying $999 for a year for something whose single difference
> > fron the FREE version is the ability to protect ones'
> > code really does not seem justifiable.
>
> So if they discontinued the Community Edition you'd be satisfied?
>
> Your portrayal of value is exactly backwards:  the Indy license isn't 
> less valuable because most of the features are also available under 
> GPL license at no cost, but rather the GPL version is mind-blowingly 
> valuable as it includes nearly everything in the proprietary editions 
> but at no cost.
>





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