Ok, here's my twitter implementation : http://eden.fm/2011/02/27/twitter-library-for-delphi/
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Francois PIETTE <francois.pie...@skynet.be > wrote: > You should really consider making in freeware/opensource. >>> You'll gain something: other people will find bugs and make enhancements. >>> Your own applications will then be better. And you'll enter the hall of >>> fames :-) >>> >> > Always been a bit skeptic about open source, >> how do you make money from that :) >> > > I do money with freeware. Well, not directly. > > You may not know it, but I'm an independant consultant, full time. A > significant part of my customers have found me because of my freeware. I > simply provide custome development, training, consultancy and other similar > activity. Many companies have some developers finding my components, then > they start writing their application and discover that they lack some > resource or knowledge to build their application, or their application > require some changes in the components. Then I'm here ! They hire me and I > earn some money. > > Also, making the components freeware makes it better. People find bugs and > added enhancements. My own applications benefit from that as well. They are > more robust. You must really make a difference between components and > applications ! I make frewware components, not applications. > > > -- > francois.pie...@overbyte.be > The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare > The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) > http://www.overbyte.be > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be > -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
