Re: imapsync
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:07:12 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you buy it you can do what do you want (WTFPL license) with it, so
>>> you can distribute if you want. But I imagine buying software to
>>> distribute it is not the Debian Philosophy, so they/we don't that
>>
>> But what's the gain of that requirement?
> The autor is winning money and before he didn't win what he want to win,
> so he changed his strategy. That is his gain, I think
Yes, and I think that a "pay per software" strategy is a valid
requirement... but not this way.
>> You download from whatever place (packaged from distributions or direct
>> download from developers website) and then you pay for it (payment
>> required, not optional) as many other FLOSS software do but limiting
>> its distribution is IMO, senseless (because as you said, only one guy
>> can pay for it and then freely redistribute anywhere...).
>
> Surely there are many people which will pay for that and then they won't
> want to distribute something that they payed ...
>
> Other people, of course, will distribute it .. (and people which get
> these copies won't pay)
So, if his main goal is to get money (which I can understand), with the
new strategy he can just sell one copy and earn 30€ for it, do you think
that's a good business plan? :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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