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I mean, if nginx offered a free personal license that worked on 5 servers (which would match up to Ubuntu Pro's free personal license), I'd be all over that. I
by withinboredom 3y ago
I mean, if nginx offered a free personal license that worked on 5 servers (which would match up to Ubuntu Pro's free personal license), I'd be all over that. I have 3 servers and I'm very unlikely to dish out $500 a month, per server, to get nginx+, but I could sell that to my employer if I was already familiar with the technology or could convince my coworkers to go give it a try and see what they thought.
It seems they're more interested in high-touch sales (which is unlikely to happen on a dev team), vs. organic growth.
- sneak 3y agoThere is of course the issue of consistency: you can't be said to believe in free software (which is an ideology based around the rights of users) if you operate a proprietary software vendor. A vendor that releases some free software and some proprietary software is a proprietary software vendor. (This describes, for example, both Microsoft and nginx.)
- withinboredom 3y agoYes, but people have to be ABLE to pay for your software. I simply cannot afford nginx+ for a hobby, and I'm a "free" asset when I make decisions for a company that CAN pay. Also, a startup may use the 'personal' license pre-revenue, then when it is time to scale up, they have to pay. Their features are coupled to your product, and they are going to pay because they have to (or rewrite a lot of code), a 'trial' simply isn't going to allow this to happen.