Thanks, but I tried all that and don't have much energy for continuing. If you're serious about open source then maybe you can forward the thread to django-developers and get some fundings to pay for a minimalistic fee to get the project maintained by someone else, otherwise I'd prefer sticking with more profitable activities.
E On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 08:23:05 +1000 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Etienne Robillard <animelo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > For $399 i give you the current source code and you can do whatever you > > like with it, including > > putting in github or sf. i think to have lost too many time already with > > further > > maintaining the open source version without getting a penny out of it. > > Like I said, I'm not personally interested; but perhaps say that to > the django list and someone'll bite. But if you're really tired of it, > then just post the source code and someone may end up taking your > project to places you never had the energy to. > > <anecdote> > There was - and, incidentally, still kinda is - a project called Gmud, > a 32-bit (but Win32s compatible) Windows MUD client. Its author asked > people to send him money if they liked and used the program - $US20 I > think - but almost nobody ever did. For years, Gmud was the > recommended Windows client for Threshold RPG, and yet still something > like *four* people ever sent the author money. So the author threw the > source out to the world and said "I'm done, have fun". > > Enter the Threshold RPG community. Gmud has been extremely popular (in > fact, some people still use it today), in spite of some limitations > that may have been reasonable a few years ago, but are ridiculous now, > like a fixed 500-line scrollback buffer. So some of the people there > ask me to grab the source, tweak a few things, and recompile. I'm a > geek, I do these sorts of things. > > Well, it turned out to be not that simple, for a few reasons. But > eventually, after a near-complete rewrite, I produced a new MUD client > that uses the same look and feel as Gmud, as an acknowledged > derivative. RosMud++ is now the officially recommended Windows client > for Threshold, and it would never have happened if Gmud's source > hadn't been given away. > </anecdote> > > It's really hard to make money off software, these days. Which is a > pity, because there's lots of good software that'd be worth money. I > do see your pain. :( This is part of why my newest MUD client, Gypsum, > is open-sourced from the very beginning. > > ChrisA -- Etienne Robillard Green Tea Hackers Club Fine Software Carpentry For The Rest Of Us! http://gthc.org/ e...@gthcfoundation.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list