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Hey, I'd be interested in knowing if you're just selling plain ol' non-free software. Can I buy the PRO version and give it to my friends, can I study it, can I

Hey, I'd be interested in knowing if you're just selling plain ol' non-free software. Can I buy the PRO version and give it to my friends, can I study it, can I modify it? It's a little sad when we are trying to figure out how to make money for free software and the answer ends up being "sell (some) software non-freely". Okay, so it's impossible to make money without selling non-free software? There can only be one Red Hat in the world? I don't think it's any consolation that you are also producing free software; pretty much every major software vendor nowadays does that while keeping all the interesting secret sauce secret.

thebooktocome 9y ago
Having explored this option somewhat recently, I assure you: it is just plain, old, non-free software.
simonbyrne 9y ago
> Can I buy the PRO version and give it to my friends, can I study it, can I modify it? Mostly: JuliaPro is essentially a nice convenient installer of a huge collection of open source work (though I can't say for sure, as I'm not really involved in that part). A few small components (e.g. the Excel plugin) are not open, and we are moving to MKL for some stuff, so that will change slightly though. Open source business models are hard (as you're no doubt aware). You may disagree, but I think Julia Computing has so far done a good job of balancing the open source vs business aspect, which is part of the reason I originally joined.