Unless they are getting paid. LOL.
sinha
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy --- Jack Torrance, The Shining
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mercer, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:20 AM
Subject: RE: followup Qs on license changes
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/
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