Re: [SL] Mailing list issue

[<sql...@li...>]

I would have to disagree there,

I like that business model. I used Open Office and liked it and when I 
needed more functionality I was happy to purchase Star Office. The same 
was true of PGAdmin III and several other apps I use on a daily basis.

I loaded SQL and played with it enough to know it would suite my needs 
so I bought the manual and a years subscription. If I upgrade I will pay 
for another year and get a new manual but for now 2.6.22 is working just 
fine and I'm not one of those patch happy people that need to have the 
latest version fully updated.

I think of them as previews not teasers.

Jeff Roberts


sql...@li... wrote:
> And those companies that use OSS as a 'teaser', arent playing by the spirit, 
> and personally id never do business with them.
>
> On Monday 13 July 2009 04:19:17 pm sql...@li... 
> wrote:
>   
>> This is why most of the larger OSS companies have a free and open-
>> sourced version which has enough bells and whistles to be interesting
>> but they hold back some modules that their actual target market would
>> require in production.  (The source for these modules is usually
>> still available as well but for paid subscribers only and obviously
>> not re-distributable!)
>>     They really get the best of both worlds this way with OSS
>> developers on the "team" often contributing to the non-OSS modules as
>> well.  There have been a few cases where specific non-OSS modules
>> were recreated by external OSS developers, (a good example is
>> Zimbra's backup function or some of KnowledgeTree's document
>> importing tools), but for the most part it's a model that works very
>> well.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>