Re: Some free utilities for Java, with Hebrew support.
nebulous99@gmail.com wrote:
On Sep 30, 10:07 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
Several pay for the support (which is said to be excellent) and get
the non-GPL license as a bonus.
The entire original discussion (and even your attacks on my character)
were predicated on the claim someone (may have been you; definitely
wasn't me) that MySQL's whole business model revolved around selling
non-GPL licensing.
This is a drastic change in tune. If their main revenue source is
selling support, then it's the same as a load of other open source
companies and there's really no further issue here. All of this rather
smells of a ridiculously overblown tempest getting way too big for its
original teapot anyway.
No.
This thread started because we told you that MySQL was not free for
everyone.
It is not.
But most people choose an alternative instead of paying.
Other ISV's have a dilemma - my impression is that only the minority
pay and that the majority goes for other solutions - PostgreSQL being
one of them.
What are these ISVs selling? (Note plural in place of possessive.) I
wouldn't think there'd be much of a market for a rebranded, closed-
source version of something you can get cheaper from the original
source. Then again, people will pay for bottled water and name-brand
colas when they could use tap water and no-name cola at a fraction of
the price, so ...
Anything.
From accounting systems to ORM frameworks.
Just stuff that needs to be linked with the database connector and
therefore can not live with GPL.
They definitely need the connectors to sell their main product the
database.
I thought the database engine was also open source.
It is.
You can sell open source as well.
Arne