Going about beta-testing a program... advice?
Anton Markov
anton-F0u+EriZ6ihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 23 02:45:38 UTC 2004
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Madison Kelly wrote:
| Well, though it isn't GPL there are numerous other split-level
| licensed programs that are popular in the Linux community (MySQL comes
| to mind). The community (and in turn you) will benefit by having a
| freely available, easy to use backup program for home users. Companies
| will be required to pay for the most recent version but they will now
| have one more backup option to chose from which may well help a Linux
| advocate to convince their company to migrate (as Suse OpenExchange
| currently does).
Actually, MySQL is licenced under a commercial license _and_ GPL, which
does allow free commercial use. Your license does not. That is
definetely a stopper if you are trying to get community involvement, but
at least your boss gets to make some money, so it's not necessairely a
bad thing.
As far as the market niche goes, I definetely see the need for a
new-generation user-friendly backup program. Something that is designed
for USB HDs and CD/DVD-R media, not tape. The only GPL alternative I
know is DAR (and KDar), but they still lack the user-friendly element.
(I know about Mondo, but it was too inflexible so it didn't worked as I
wanted).
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