Hello everyone, Again, thank you for your replies.
I've always done free products up to the one I am developing now, and, having considered the things you guys have said, will continue to do so. Part of it is a confidence thing, I really don't think my products are worth 7, let alone 700 bucks, the other is I'm a sucker for helping as many people as I can. Anyway, staying on topic here, I really appreciate all of you taking the time to give me advice and help, thank you very much :) Thanks Nate On 04/05/2019 22:50, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 04/05/2019 15:35, nathan tech wrote: >> It has to be said, after extensive research, and responses here, it >> seems python was just not designed to be a commercial product. > That depends. Python wasn't designed to be a commercial product > in that it is an open source programming language and interpreter > and so is free and inherently non-commercial(*). > > Can it produce commercial products? Of course it can and has. > It is no different to any other similar development environment > such as Visual Basic, PHP, even JAVA or Lisp or Smalltalk. > >> Licenses are all well and good, but if you're hacking a product, you're >> just not going to be stopped by a lisence. > True, but you can hack any product regardless of the language, > even C++ or assembler can be hacked. The vast majority of users > don't have the skills nor the time nor the inclination. And, > if you can catch them, the license allows you to sue... > >> Furthering to that, if I ever sold products it would be £5, or $7, and 7 >> bucks just isn't worth all the effort to make python difficult to hack. > 7 bucks isn't worth building a commercial product, unless you are sure > you will sell 100's of thousands. And 7 bucks is also not worth the > time and effort of hacking anything! But there are commercial products > that sell for 100s of dollars that are written, in part at least, in Python. > >> Nothing is impossible, but, deterring the average user just for $7? Not >> worth it. > A license is cheap to produce and deters the "average user". > Very few users will know how to hack code of any kind, and > even those that do will have better things to do with > their time than try to save 7 bucks! > > The real question is whether you can produce something > that is worth $7 to your customers. If it is they will > buy it. If not they will look elsewhere, they won't try to > decompile it and disable the protection - assuming you > installed any. > > If your software is worth, say, $700 then possibly they > might think about spending time getting round the license. > Then it might be worth some minor effort on protection. > but not much because if they really want to they can > reverse engineer it regardless. That's the rules and > reality of commercial software. > > The value lies in always being one step better than > the guys who are following. That's how Adobe, et al > maintain their lead and why they keep issuing updates! > > (*)Even open source can be commercial if you build a > support plan around it. Red Hat and Cygnus are good > examples of that strategy. Selling support for > opensource software can work. > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
