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From: Woody on 15 Apr 2010 04:29 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-15, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Cocoa MySQL sort of died, but it got reborn as Sequel Pro. Still free, > >> from <http://www.sequelpro.com/> > > > > Ooh, that *is* nice. Thanks. > > > > I get the feeling it won't be free once it hits 1.0, though... > > "Sequel Pro is an active open source project that runs from the volunteer > work of talented developers from all around the world." > > I think that would make it tricky at least to charge for. > > Or I could be very naive... As you could just download the source code and build it yourself, I don't think they would get too far, and I don't think they would try. They seem pretty commited to the product. If they had wanted (or been able to) charge they would have done so long ago. It may be below 1.0 but it is quite a long way past a 1.0 of some peoples software, as was cocoaMySql -- Woody
From: Chris Ridd on 15 Apr 2010 05:05 On 2010-04-15 09:09:16 +0100, Jim said: > On 2010-04-15, chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Cocoa MySQL sort of died, but it got reborn as Sequel Pro. Still free, >>> from <http://www.sequelpro.com/> >> >> Ooh, that *is* nice. Thanks. >> >> I get the feeling it won't be free once it hits 1.0, though... > > "Sequel Pro is an active open source project that runs from the volunteer > work of talented developers from all around the world." > > I think that would make it tricky at least to charge for. > > Or I could be very naive... It is odd that they're doing all this from a .com domain. -- Chris
From: Jochem Huhmann on 15 Apr 2010 05:13 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> writes: >>> I get the feeling it won't be free once it hits 1.0, though... >> >> "Sequel Pro is an active open source project that runs from the volunteer >> work of talented developers from all around the world." >> >> I think that would make it tricky at least to charge for. >> >> Or I could be very naive... > > It is odd that they're doing all this from a .com domain. If this would be an .org domain and if they had an amateurish website nobody would ask this and it still wouldn't make any difference. I mean, you *can* sell open source software but it will still stay open source. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: chris on 15 Apr 2010 08:32
On 15/04/10 10:13, Jochem Huhmann wrote: > Chris Ridd<chrisridd(a)mac.com> writes: > >>>> I get the feeling it won't be free once it hits 1.0, though... >>> >>> "Sequel Pro is an active open source project that runs from the >>> volunteer work of talented developers from all around the >>> world." >>> >>> I think that would make it tricky at least to charge for. >>> >>> Or I could be very naive... Thanks for that Jim. I'd missed it. >> It is odd that they're doing all this from a .com domain. > > If this would be an .org domain and if they had an amateurish > website nobody would ask this and it still wouldn't make any > difference. I guess that's where I got impression from. It does look very slick and the software itself, on first impressions, looks very complete. > I mean, you *can* sell open source software but it will still stay > open source. That's right. Although, in practical terms you're unlikely to make much money as the vast majority will just download the source. |