Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 00:33:04 -0500 | From | Milosz Tanski <> | Subject | Re: Gauntlet Set NOW! |
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:22:44 -0200 (BRST) Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > I would rather look for constructive alternatives than just > > criticize. In such a situation, I would look for a way to make the > > program free. > > > If there is no easy way to make the same program free, there may be > > a harder way. > > There is of course the business model used by the ghostscript > people, used by tytso when he made resize2fs and also used by > Andre Hedrick: > > 1) write the software, sell it for a profit for some period > of time (eg. 18 months) > > 2) after that, release the program and its source code > > To the copyright holder, this has all the benefits of a strictly
Seams to me like a perfectly good idea, infact I want to use that for a game i'm developing in my free time(wheter or not i finish this, is out of the scope of the discussion :)), once i'm done i'm going to see how much time i spent working on this. Then i'm going figure out a time period and ammount of money that would be *fair* conpensation. then i plan to release under a free licence (such as the GPL, haven't put a lot of though into that part quite yet), depending if I make the set ammount of money first or the set time passes buy (since chance are then i won't make my set goal :|). If people (not even me) can make money to put on a table this way, have a decent place to live, and have health insurance then this model can't be bad. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |