[mrkai]

Originally Posted by Trenien

mrkai, out of curiosity, under what kind of license is your software nowadays?

Commercial. Very old or unsupported apps, we give away. We've also written utilities for free.

Personally, for "because I was bored" I've done a lot of ports for the convenience of others and given them away or had an employee on downtime whip them out.

I mean, pretty obviously you started of with a proprietary license, but ever since your change of heart, have you modified it? Have you considered going open source?

I have not. If ever that were to happen, it certainly would not be under the GPL.

If not, why?

It is still a supported and sold high quality commercial product. There are less than a handful of products that are GPL'd that I consider high quality...and I do not believe any of them run on Linux.

It does quite well and there is really no need for a collective developer pool

As for the GPL, I find it abhorrent and offensive. I understand what it tries to achieve however it devalues forward contribution in a way I don't like or agree with.

If I understand properly you've decided you don't care if people use your software without paying for it, but you only offer support to paying customers.

I've decided that I'm not going to spend my time chasing people around that don't purchase a license, but I most certainly care if they do not. I'm just not obsessed with that aspect of it anymore. I make an OK living.

I consider people that use the software w/o licensing part of "the cost of doing business".