[Gambas-user] Re: Licence program writed in Gambas.

[Eilert]

Rob schrieb:
> On Monday 27 June 2005 03:04, Eilert wrote:
> 
>>>I have made tens of thousands of dollars writing GPL software,
>>>maybe even hundreds of thousands after so long; I do it almost
>>>full-time, and I think it's safe to say it's my living.
>>
>>How do you do that? I'm just an amateur programmer, coding a few
>>tools for my own and my family's firms. But I'm at a lack to
>>understand how to make money with programs you just give away :-)
> 
> 
> By making it into a business.  I spend virtually all of my 
> professional life either modifying existing GPL-covered code to my 
> clients' liking, or writing new code which I always license under the 
> GPL.  My company bills by the hour, not by the copy as proprietary 
> software developers do.  Because the code is GPL, I get to reuse as 
> much as I want from project to project, resulting in similar cost 
> efficiencies to the "write once, sell to many" model and in 
> competitive rates for my clients, and I'm not stuck trying to force 
> my clients' business models to fit my choices of user interface, file 
> formats, workflow, etc.

That makes it much clearer, Rob, thanks for your answer. For the first 
time I see how that system can make sense :-)


Rolf