Then tell them what the project is and what you can afford. Seriously -- that applies for all software components. If you're working for a Fortune 1000 call the person who licenses software and ask them to work something out. If you're working for a smaller company, or on your own, know that if you talk to virtually any software company they'll work within your budget constraints, as long as those constraints are reasonable. That's not just the itext licensing partner but Oracle, Microsoft, IBM ... as long as you're not BS'ing them they'll all work with you. They want you to do well so that you use their product in bigger projects, or pay them more as you grow. They make nothing if they demand fees you can't pay and don't use their product(s). Since the incremental cost for software is virtually zero there's little to lose and lots to gain once you're locked-in. [Conversely, for the younger engineers here, be careful who you lock-in with ... divorces in software are worse than divorces in real life.]
Michael. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM, David Hoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to make money from this > product. But I take issue with ""making money" being defined as > somebody is paying you". I thought making money was defined as what's > left over after expenses. > > The cost is too high for small projects. Only the U.S. Government can > make the economics of spending more than your income work out somehow > :) > > -Dave > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Bruno Lowagie <br...@lowagie.com> wrote: >> Michael Olenick wrote: >>> If you're making money from iText -- with "making money" being defined >>> as somebody is paying you -- you should pay for it. There's a lot of >>> hard work that went into the creation and support of this awesome >>> tool. >> >> Thanks! >> best regards, >> Bruno >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ >> Check the site with examples before you ask questions: >> http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ >> You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
