Hi Paul!
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Paul Ilechko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: jueves 18 de octubre de 2001 0:43
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: RE: ASPizer
> > How can you commit to backing a project over the long term
> if your company
> > can't get funding? When your company goes out of business,
> what interest
> > will you have in developing this project over the long term?
>
> We have a viable consulting company, and we make money. The product
> development is something we have done when we see a need in
> the market, but
> we have no reliance on income from it. We had hoped to sell
> ASPizer through
> a partnership with a major software company, but that fell
> through. At this
> point, we don't feel that we can afford to hire a software
> sales staff and
> build a software company around it. As a result of this, we
> are interested
> in building a market through open source. We can afford to maintain a
> certain level of development on this product, and are willing
> to do so. I'm
> not sure how you expect us to prove that, though.
IMHO, the commitment from your company is not enough. The company might go under, or shift strategy, or find the product no longer useful. That would leave the product effectively orphaned, in Jakarta land but with nobody willing to support it.
However, a commitment from the developers of the project themselves might be much more reassuring.
> > How come you haven't put the source code out there under an OSS
> > license yet
> > so that we can look at it before we decide to begin to even
> consider it?
>
> Sorry, but I'm pretty new to the whole open source approach.
> We can look
> into other options and see what the best way to do this is. We're not
> looking to dump something on anyone.
Un saludo,
Alex.
