[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Charles Yeomans]

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

>> No.  Because I don't know how much the subscription fee will
>> be in the
>> future.  I've certainly seen Windows developer friends of mine get
>> screwed when their $300 license jumps to $2500 + runtime
>> fees.  So, as
>> I noted in another message, prudence suggests that I any
>> application I
>> write using VServer would need to be designed so that I can change db
>> engines as easily as possible -- and that may or may not be
>> so easy to
>> do.
>
> That's the price of your pessimism, Charles. But as I said in other
> emails, don't think that just because something looks like it is free,
> it cannot cost you later.
>
> I can totally appreciate your concerns here. But honestly, even if my
> brother sold me a business solution, Id still have a disaster plan if
> the stakes are that precious. If you planned on using MySQL, you should
> still consider what would happen if you could no longer use MySQL.
>

I agree.  As I understand it, the stated point of having this 
discussion was to get feedback on licensing ideas for the upcoming 
version of Valentina; part of that from my perspective is to try to 
understand all of the consequences of the proposals.

Charles Yeomans