From: raistlin@wixer.cactus.org (Eli Boaz) Subject: Re: BBS Project -- Linux? Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 02:27:22 GMT
In article <9303132002.AA14564@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> STMQ%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Michael Quigley) writes:
>Dear Linuxers,
>
>I have been receiving a lot of nasty mail from people complaining about
>my BBS software being released commercially. The development group and I
>are now having reservations about releasing it for Linux. While I have
>been getting a lot of positive feedback, the good and bad feedback are
>not in a ratio that I would like to see.
>
>I like Linux very much. When the software is done, I am going to run it
>under Linux on MY box. But if the Linux community is not ready to accept
>commercial software written for Linux, I am afraid I am going to have to
>port it to some dog like SCO to sell it. I don't want to have to do this,
>but this is a large project being worked on by several people, and I am
>afraid that I have sunk too much money into it to release it for nothing.
I have no problems with commercial software for Linux. In fact, I think
that this would be a good thing for Linux in general -- but all this is
IMHO of course. Face the facts, most people using computers wouldn't even
touch a program or OS if it was free (I mean a _real_ program, not some
little utility). I think that commercial software, although it wouldn't
sell very many copies (IMHO), for Linux would make Linux "more acceptable"
for some people.
Just my 0.02US$ worth. . .
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