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Bart / Philipp,
There needs to be pricing levels somewhere between free and commercial.
free -> one-man business -> family business -> corporation ->
multi-national corporation
In the past, working for a family business that became multinational,
over a period of five years we sold about $20 million worth of software
but only had to pay $10,000 dollars for the development tools. $100,000
would not have been unreasonable. In my first year of business on my own
I made about $20,000. $1500 was then too much to pay for the development
tools.
As for Linux, Mono is already a well advanced port of the .NET framework
to Linux. Component Pascal gets a mention:
http://www.go-mono.com/languages.html#ComponentPascal
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wijck, Bart van [mailto:Bart.van.Wijck{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 12:52 AM
> To: 'Hof, Philipp'; 'blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: RE: A strategy for BlackBox
>
>
> Hi Philipp,
>
> Your first comment I agree with in principle. The second
> would be nice if we wanted to go the .NET road. Do we?
> Technically nice, but politically? Think of all the Linux
> people and their opinion of the Gates Empire. In any case
> that's way beyond where we are at the moment. I was thinking
> in much simpler terms.
>
> Regards, Bart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hof, Philipp [mailto:p.hof{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:49 PM
> To: 'blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: RE: A strategy for BlackBox
>
>
> > free or very low price use of a basic BlackBox
> > version for learning / personal use.
> Free if you are free, commercial if you are commercial:)
>
> > connectivity (web, XML etc.)
> Running on and interfacing to the .NET framework.
>
> Regards,
> Philipp
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