Firstly I want to say that I respect your opinions.
There is a lot of projects, where open source approach works and it works well. But there is also a lot of examples, where it caused problems.
Depending on what I know, the successful projects as Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Linux, etc. have sponsors which fund the core development and developers. I think it would be problem to find such sponsors or another source of finance for Software Ideas Modeler.
I have made several investigations about open-source donationwares, which include similar software and software from completely different category but with 20-50x more users. The published sum of donations of these softwares (with a wider user base than SIM) is not sufficient for full time development.
There is also an option to do this project only as hobby, but this would radically reduce the dedicated time for it.
When one is a student, it can be fun to develop tens of hours a week on meaningful project for free, but later one finds it is not possible to work so much besides the full-time job. So the project has to be not only meaningful, not only fun, but also has to be paid (at least to cover monthly expenses of developer).
P.S. I am considering some kind of shared code license, which would allow to share source codes with companies, which purchase the license.
Dusan Rodina - softwareideas.net
21 November 2011 14:57:46
Reply To: RE:
Firstly I want to say that I respect your opinions.
There is a lot of projects, where open source approach works and it works well. But there is also a lot of examples, where it caused problems.
Depending on what I know, the successful projects as Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Linux, etc. have sponsors which fund the core development and developers. I think it would be problem to find such sponsors or another source of finance for Software Ideas Modeler.
I have made several investigations about open-source donationwares, which include similar software and software from completely different category but with 20-50x more users. The published sum of donations of these softwares (with a wider user base than SIM) is not sufficient for full time development.
There is also an option to do this project only as hobby, but this would radically reduce the dedicated time for it.
When one is a student, it can be fun to develop tens of hours a week on meaningful project for free, but later one finds it is not possible to work so much besides the full-time job. So the project has to be not only meaningful, not only fun, but also has to be paid (at least to cover monthly expenses of developer).
P.S. I am considering some kind of shared code license, which would allow to share source codes with companies, which purchase the license.
Dusan Rodina - softwareideas.net 21 November 2011 14:57:46