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

[Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pete Helgren wrote:
> 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.

Pete, given your previous posts regarding open source software (OSS), I 
presume you don't mean to imply that OSS is less secure (in the computer 
security sense) than proprietary software.  Do you mean that companies 
can be secure in their decision to use commercial software because it is 
more familiar, usually comes with a support contract, and in some cases 
"there is someone to sue" if something goes horribly wrong?

In any case, I agree with Pete that shareware is likely to have 
difficulty gaining traction, because it doesn't really fit into the 
familiar initial purchase + maintenance & support mould.