Jan-Oliver makes an excellent point here, however I will point out that in the minds of the layman, the term "commercial" is synonymous with "for pay". So yeah, it implies professionalism, but mostly because professionalism implies "for pay". You don't hear much about professional volunteers, for example.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan-Oliver Wagner > Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 5:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: followup Qs on license changes > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Benjamin Tomhave wrote: > > Am wondering if I missed this somewhere... was an > explanation given (other > > than the "lack of other contributors" line) for the > commercialization of > > Nessus? > >... > > Please don't oppose "Commercial" and "Free Software". > > Using the term "Commercial Software" as the opposite of "Free > Software" > is not just simply wrong but also hazardous to the evolvement of the > Free Software concept in business environment. > > The attribute "commercial" in business is a synonym for > "professional". > Thus, if you oppose the terms "Commercial Software" and "Free > Software", > you imply Free Software to be less professional. Don't do it > if you like > the Free Software concept! > > The opposite of Free Software is proprietary software. Both can either > be commercial or non-commercial. A Free Software can be called > commercial, if you can buy certain services such as training, > installation, configuration/setup, maintenance, development etc. and a > customer can be satisfied with any subset of these. > Non-commercial Free > Software is software where you can't pay a company for services. > Non-commercial proprietary software is usually gratis software (often > referred to as "freeware") without available services from companies. > > Nessus has always been a professional product! > Both, the proprietary versions and the Free Software one > are commercial. > > Best > > Jan > -- > Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ > Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ > Kolab Konsortium http://kolab-konsortium.de/ > FreeGIS http://freegis.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
