Giuseppe Briotti wrote:
Hi all, hi Bernard... probably, my response is a bit late, but I spent time reading (hopefully!) carefully all the answers...
Thus, my 0,02$:
I think that probably the correct question is: "Please convince me to make my business model" :-)
I agree with others that probably, the SaaS business models require closed source. Thus, probably, no choice...
IMHO the open source software implies a different business model, something similar to "partnership".
Good luck, honestly,
Giuseppe Briotti.
Giuseppe, the business model is my choice and I am free to decide an other business model what is normally used. And the consequence of this choice is completely to me, with succes or with failure.
I appreciate you all have been made suggestions. The start of the first thread was :
*Summery of my question* : My conditions are : *I decide if I make Wikibox Blue Open source *I decide when Wikibox Blue will be Open source *I decide on which conditions Wikibox Blue will be open source.
The last item is the implies the business model.
In my first attempted I had "good faith" in the community, which was abused by a few people. Not the whole community. I feel it is normal after your trust is abused you lose trust. You need to regain that. That was also my question.
If you start asking a question, you do not know the answer. If you did there is no need to ask a question.
Reading all the comments, I made my decision. I would prefer something else, but in the current circumstance I can not afford doing something else.
Thanks for your reply Giuseppe.
With regards Bernard