I'm not trying to vote for a fork just pointing out that someone in this thread (or recent thread) said they DID fork; so if your thinking of doing the same you might want to share resources with one that already did the fork.
-Dave On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM, 1T3XT info <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
