On 5 June 2015 at 13:16, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm the author of Cursive, which I'm planning to sell and which will be > (mostly) closed source. What I don't see here is what would be the advantage > to me in using this license? I'm not releasing closed source because I'm > evil, but because I want Cursive development to be sustainable so I can > continue to develop it and my family can continue to eat and not live in > cardboard boxes. Charging for closed source software is the only realistic > model I can see that achieves this goal. > > I suspect the Datomic team's reasoning is similar - their pricing is far > from outrageous for the sort of product they're offering. What would be the > advantage to them in doing this? They would simply lose the ability to > charge in two years' time, and they would also lose the vast majority of > their clients who also wouldn't want to be bound by these restrictions. > Nobody wins, as far as I can see.
I gather the idea is to increase the chance of success. By promising to release it as FLOSS in N years, unless there's a sustainable business supporting it before then, customers might feel less hesitant betting on the SW in question, which then increases the likelihood of a sustainable business appearing. Whether it'll actually work is something I'll leave for others to discuss. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
