Crazy software development business model

Nathan England plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
23 Oct 2001 13:33:45 -0700


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Understood.  I got it.  I do like that idea. It would be rather
interesting to see if we could pull it off.

Now, back to that coding dilema...


On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 12:07, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:28:02AM -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> > Isn't this kind of what happened with Tux Racer?
> > It sounds good to me, now if I could learn to code, I'd even help!
> > 
> > nathan
> 
> Actually, according to their website, it's released under the GNU GPL -- no
> modifications at all. What I was proposing was to develop the software
> first, then sell the thing as a commercial app that people can modify for
> personal use. The minute they want to use it for commercial gain, they have
> to pay us a license fee. Mind you, we wouldn't let the datafiles out for
> free -- you'd need to buy a copy of the game for those.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
> phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
> http://tank.dyndns.org
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Nathan England
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480.705.2676

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