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Bit of bussines and money.... [message #6201]

Thu, 02 November 2006 15:13

mirek is currently offline

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OK, I am afraid this topic might offend many...

Anyway, I believe that in the long term, U++ needs some cash flow to grow.

Ideally, it would be nice to have some commercial backing for the library, and maybe we will get there at some point in the future.

In any case, in all of my plans, U++ library is free BSD licensed open software, usable even for closed-source commercial applications without any fee.

So where the little cash might come from? I plan to implement following features soon:

- some limited website advertising, most likely google adsense. I will try hard to keep it decent and not too much disturbing.

- PayPal donations. Inspired by www.winscp.net, you will be even able to get something in return - we will be listing all donors in TheIDE main help page (again in some decent way), with added features based on donation size - so it will be a kind of advertising too (big donation -> big font, www link and perhaps some additional info) (it is good that topic++ is now compressing files Wink

Wink

Now rather exotic idea:

- sponsorship banner on TheIDE splash-screen and about box. Actually, there already was such banner in 511 release. The sponsorship would be granted based on eBay auction.

Distant future plans, not very high level of probability:

* U++ consulting

* U++ Pro boxed version with enterprise tools (but in no case the free version would be made less useful for average users - this would be rather about Fedora/RHEL model..)

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		Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Thu, 02 November 2006 15:13
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Thu, 02 November 2006 15:18
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: fallingdutch on Thu, 02 November 2006 15:38
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Thu, 02 November 2006 16:14
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: Ulti on Thu, 02 November 2006 16:51
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Thu, 02 November 2006 16:59
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: slashmais on Wed, 03 January 2007 10:46
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: zsolt on Thu, 02 November 2006 16:07
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: masu on Fri, 03 November 2006 11:53
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Fri, 03 November 2006 12:00
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: fallingdutch on Fri, 03 November 2006 13:17
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Fri, 03 November 2006 13:48
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: Werner on Sat, 04 November 2006 20:54
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: fallingdutch on Sun, 05 November 2006 00:15
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Sun, 05 November 2006 06:17
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: exolon on Sun, 05 November 2006 18:54
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Sun, 05 November 2006 18:59
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: yeohhs on Mon, 06 November 2006 05:37
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: exolon on Mon, 06 November 2006 19:03
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Thu, 09 November 2006 20:21
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Fri, 10 November 2006 00:18
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mobilehunter on Fri, 10 November 2006 06:29
		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Sun, 12 November 2006 08:51
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		Re: Bit of bussines and money.... By: mirek on Tue, 14 November 2006 00:47
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