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> Yes, but what makes us believe they won't go the same faith as all the others? Switching to an open source model would mean that only 1% of the users would p
by lispm 3y ago
> Yes, but what makes us believe they won't go the same faith as all the others?
Switching to an open source model would mean that only 1% of the users would pay anything. To make that viable you need a good business model for a much larger or a different market. The business model is vastly different with a vastly different product.
Just open sourcing the thing is an easy way to kill an existing company, which now has a small, but paying customer base.
- amno 3y agoNo, no; it wasn't was I meant; I clarified in the last one; release things for free for already non-paying customers for non-commercial use only, Qt style. I am hard to believe Boeing would count in that group :).
- lispm 3y agoHow do you enforce that? Experience shows that most companies ignore that code is only for non-commercial use and it's hard to enforce for small companies. I also doubt that all customers are like Boeing.