BTW, I have cleared purchacing licences with my own people, and we do not have a problem. Neither do I not like MySQL, I do.
The licence model you have supports a model similar to that of Oricle. Large, small quantity, expensive products. We are at the opposite end. Small low cost products which are Shareware, or low cost. (Even Shareware needs a MySQL Licence.) In this case the MySQL licence is up to 200% of the cost of the product. You say it's cheep... It is for one. I need hundreds/thousands. The licences also cannot be purchaced without an expensive support contract. You gues are too good, I don't need one :)
To be fare, you do discounts for low cost software. But if only $10 on 5000 products is still the difference between hiring, or firing, a programmer.
Is this case, you can say, 'Well, f*** off then', and we will. But there are a lot more small companies than large ones. There may be a time when one too many companies are using, say, SapDB, and MySQL becomes a backwater...
The MS model is not the same as everybody has this and paid for it, often without evern knowing it. Even if, like me, I wipe it and install something else.
I feal I am digging my self a grave here, so this will be about my last ever posting... Either that or your mailing administrator will start bouncing my mail....
Ben
Rusch (ext) Reiner wrote:
Hi Ben, I'm not sure what you really want to sell. If you have to take a license from MySQL because of a commercial use, you just have to take ONE license. Correct me, if I'm wrong! If you want to sell your programs etc. which uses MySQL then see it in another way: Firstly MySQL isn't very expensive in my opinion. If your client wants to buy your programs then he has to buy a license (when his way is a commercial one). So this would be a must that your client has to take. But, if you would sell programs based on Microsoft Windows, what would be the difference? None! Your client would need to have a valid license on this OS! But would you say, Microsofts Windows (for example!) would be bad just because it's difficult to tell your client that he NEED'S windows to run your work? NO, you wouldn't! Perhaps because "everyone" has windows. But why to think in another way about MySQL? I think this isn't fair!!!Regards, Reiner
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