anonymous wrote : With no disrespect to JBoss as a product, this idea of charging $10 for the docs is appalling marketing.
I don't quite understand what you mean by it is appaling marketing, if they want to charge for a service that they provide what is wrong with that. anonymous wrote : There is a whole mind-set behind the idea of open-source software. But you are unwilling to give anything back, how would you like to see the documentation improved? anonymous wrote : Anyway it's all been gone over before. In what way has it all been gone over before? anonymous wrote : Just don't forget that as a developer I can always get weblogic for 90 days or websphere for 60 or whatever, and not have to pay a thing, and have the online docs available. You may be able to get Weblogic and Websphere for free for a limited time, but what about the end user that will be running the app that you have developed? anonymous wrote : How much revenue does it generate? 1000 a month? 5000 a month? It would have to at least 1,500 a month to make it worth it - that way it would support a developer and be worth the Why do they need to justify how much they make to you? And what puts you in the position to consider it a lame concept? The JBoss group are obviously happy that selling the documentation works. anonymous wrote : intangible cost of alienating developers who see it as a lame concept. Again, anything to back this comment up? anonymous wrote : Look at mysql - that's the way to do it. You get developers adding to the docs as well all the time, so as you rewrite them, you have the comments from them about exactly where you need to improve it. Yes I agree the documentation for MySQL is excelent, however there are legal issues when using the MySQL database commercially without purchasing a licence as that is the way that they have decided to fund their development. <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3826553#3826553";>View the original post</a> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3826553>Reply to the post</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
