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$:
I think that probably the correct question is: "Please convince me to make my business model" :-)
I agree with others that probably, the SaaS business models require closed source. Thus, probably, no choice...
IMHO the open source software implies a different business model, something similar to "partnership".
Good luck, honestly,
Giuseppe Briotti.
Giuseppe Briotti wrote:
Hi all, hi Bernard... probably, my response is a bit late, but I spent time reading (hopefully!) carefully all the answers...
Thus, my 0,02$:
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
Anyway, I bet 99% of software written ends up unused. So one is lucky to get some users in the first place. And making it Free will make that 99% into a 98%... I.e., in the end one ends up begging for users before finally abandoning the project, so no need to put one more stumbling block ($) in the way.
On 1/22/2010 6:20 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Anyway, I bet 99% of software written ends up unused. So one is lucky to get some users in the first place. And making it Free will make that 99% into a 98%... I.e., in the end one ends up begging for users before finally abandoning the project, so no need to put one more stumbling block ($) in the way.
You can pretty much say the same thing for any type of software, free or commercial. Which is why if you are going to write software, write it first to please yourself. Anything afterward is a bonus.
Hello Ryan and Dan,
I am happy about your interest about testing MW software. I realy do appreciatie that. I will start an other thread which is strongly related to this subject. If you like please respond also on that thread.
With regards,
Bernard Hulsman
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:19 PM, dan nessett dnessett@yahoo.com wrote:
Would someone be willing to comment on what activity currently
exists on creating tests for the MW software? I notice the "t" directory no longer exists and the "tests" directory had been moved to maintenance. Furthermore, there appears to be more tests in the "tests" directory than there was 9-12 months ago. Is that an indication that someone is working on test development?
Both PHPUnit and Selenium tests are being actively worked on.
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane
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