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I am excited because of the license. If he is successful then that means that other programmers respect and appreciate his work as a programmer to exchange mone
by briansmith 18y ago
I am excited because of the license. If he is successful then that means that other programmers respect and appreciate his work as a programmer to exchange money for it. That means that other programmers (me, in particular) have a chance of making money by selling software, potentially even to other programmers.
It is amazing to me that so many programmers refuse to purchase any software, unless it comes bundled with a hardware purchase (Mac OS X, Windows). Hardware is worth hundreds or thousands of dollars but software is worth nothing?
- DougBTX 18y agoIf you want to sell this sort of stuff, you should aim it at .Net programmers. As generalising as this may sound, they are used to paying money for software, so are more likely to buy yours. Not so in the open source world. Naturally, you'll want to buy yourself a copy of Visual Studio, probably buy a copy of ReSharper as well, to get yourself started.
- ph0rque 18y agoWhatever you pay for the licence, you don't get to modify the code (unless I'm misunderstanding what "no-derivative" means). That's what "de-excited" me about it.
- royty 18y agoFor all non open-source projects it makes sense to have a no-derivative works license. You would be putting yourself out of business without it. Awesome script, I'll definitely be using it in some projects.
- briansmith 18y agoI agree that it makes sense to prohibit the distribution of modified copies, but it is usually better to let people modify the software as long as they keep those modifications internal.