Re: Shareware on the i - Need some opinions....

Thanks for the feedback Pete. I am a fan of RRE, and appreciate your input.

Part of my concern for piracy, is actually borne of a desire to keep this 'SOX-friendly'. I do not want my app phoning home. In it's current incarnation I have actually made changes to make it as free-standing as I possibly can, so there can be no worries about what it might 'really be doing'. Any app that opens a network connection is a risk in the sox/pci world....

Luckily this will not be a primary source of income. Maybe it will cover a vacation with the wife :)

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From: "Pete Helgren" <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:52 PM
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Shareware on the i - Need some opinions....

Dave,

There are only a couple of active open source projects that I am aware
of that are i specific and they have some activity but when compared to
other non-i open source projects that are running on i (e.g. PHP, Java,
Rails, etc) they pale in comparison. The i community is inching toward
the open source world but there has been no "embracing" yet. I think
that is because the primary focus of the i is business computing, and
more specifically mission critical business computing and so the
community leans to the more secure side of the fence with fully
supported, proprietary systems rather than open source systems. But, I
think that is beginning to change.

I mention Open Source because that is a good bell weather, I think, for
the Shareware world. My point is that the i community is reticent to
embrace open source and I think that that would apply to the shareware
world as well. The good news is that you could be ahead of the curve
because, as I said, the climate for the acceptance of open source on i
is changing and that could bode well for the i shareware world as well.

Unless you have a very cool and flexible app (maybe it is!) I would
guess that even covering your investment of time will be difficult. But,
you never know.

Pete Helgren