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As a Service? Why not go open source?
by illyism 13y ago
As a Service? Why not go open source?
- MasterScrat 13y agoHow would you make money with that? honest question.
- est 13y agoHow to sell free software http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
- yetanotherphd 13y agoIt's obvious to most people (regardless of whether you think that free software is in important principle) that the techniques described in that section will result in you making MUCH LESS money, at least in the current context of these people selling their API.
- jan3er 13y agoBecause people like to make a living from it when they work on a product full time.
- mynameisme 13y agoIgnoring any open vs. closed source arguments, this kind of thing would work much better as library than some third party service. There's no way I'd make an application that depended on a third party service over the internet for basic UI interaction.
- ar7hur 13y agoYou're absolutely right, that's why we plan to release a "run on your server / embed on your device" runtime. Having it online for configuration has at least two advantages: 1/ Easier to start (1 minute and you're playing with it) 2/ Leverage existing, "live" data to build your configuration
- mynameisme 13y agoIn that case, I'll be on the look out when it's released!