Michael Olenick wrote: > People -- Call or write to Bruno's sales agent.
Thanks! I've had a speed course in economics at http://www.vlerick.com/ last year, discovering there's more to the IT business than writing code. It's all about the business model, not just the business model used for iText, but also the business model of the end user/developer. You've explained that very well. We are using a license (be it the AGPL, or a commercial license) because that's better for everyone. If you choose the AGPL, you share your code. If you choose the commercial license, you share some of your revenue. The situation before the AGPL was not healthy. At some point, I had the impression I was being suffocated: plenty of people were mailing me personally, DEMANDING a solution for their problem. I didn't have any time to think about new code anymore, and that's not good: a good product has to offer continuity! Recently, I attended an event where I had a talk with a CEO of a company who had been using iText for years. He said that he was now looking for another free product "because he could no longer use iText." I asked him how much switching to another library would cost in terms of development, and what he would do if that other free library decided to change its license too (because it's easy to run a F/OSS product if you're not successful, but it's a lot of hard work as soon as people actually start using it). He hadn't thought about that yet, but I saw that he realized that would probably cost him far more than to have another chat with sales. So it goes... -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] 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/
