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May him make tons of money. Nginx provides more values than hundreds of million-dollars acquihires nowadays.
by dodyg 13y ago
May him make tons of money.
Nginx provides more values than hundreds of million-dollars acquihires nowadays.
- antocv 13y agoAgreed. It is a bit sad though that free software has come to this choice, now needing to maintain a commercial and an open source version, and the conflict of interests that means and the possible diminished value of the open source product. But alas no other solution than this is really on the table for the developers to actually make money out of something so valuable to society. Donation-route? Didnt they have that?
- smacktoward 13y agoThe problem with relying on donations is that people don't make donations.
- FooBarWidget 13y agoThey did. Check out how many people donated: http://nginx.org/en/donation.html http://nginx.org/en/donation.html Hint: not enough to support yourself + wife + children.
- antocv 13y agoI assumed so, its a sad state of affairs. Its mostly private persons, where are the companies making huge profits from nginx? So its good they do like this with nginx plus, even if the open source version suffers, I wish the developers make tons of money.
- dagw 13y agoConvincing your boss you need to pay $1500 for a software license for some core software is fairly easy and all companies have procedures to handle it. Convincing your boss that you should donate $1500 to some open source hacker in Russia who wrote the web server you use is much much harder and there may not even be procedures in place.
- jtheory 13y agoA publicly-held corporation could (in theory) be sued by its shareholders if it just gave away profits like that.
- dodyg 13y agoDamn, he'd make more money working for McDonalds.
- pjscott 13y agoAt McDonald's, there's a very obvious causal relationship between paying some money and getting a hamburger, so of course people pay. With nginx, you just apt-get install your hamburger, and you're done. Donating would hardly ever come to your mind in that process.