From:	Howard Schwartz <theo AT ncal DOT verio DOT com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id:	<199809021900.MAA03703@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>
To:	fernande AT internet1 DOT net, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DrDos really free?

Chad Fernandez wrote:

> I think Caldera is testing the waters or what ever you want to call it.  I
> think one of the reasons it is gaining recognition and popularity is because
> it is "free".  They (Caldera) obviuosly would like to make some money from
> it, However.  It is my opinion that the current wording is to see if people
> are willing to pay for it, without requiring it be paid for and then
> loosing a good customer base.

It is a fine line walking between the world of commercial renumeration and
the world of free sharing as Opera  is trying to do, and now perhaps
Caldera. If/when they release the source code, I wonder how they will
continue to be able to charge a fee for the binary? In theory, those
with the daring do can compile the sources themselves, for free.

Also the possibility of worldwide informal development, add ons, and
code sharing would become impossibily muddy, if Caldera charged for
their version of the latest greatest.  Would the non-Caldera contributors
get paid? Perhaps Caldera can/will go the route of folks like debian or
redhat and charge a fee for the convenient packaging of installment
packages, rather than the software itself.

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