monkeyfoahead wrote:… release the code for free. … hope that whoever buys it will do so quickly. …
+1
and for what it's worth, that would please me most – if it's acceptable to both buyer and seller.
Still, amongst the possibilities, a buyer may prefer to both:
- open some of the source, enough to be of tangible benefit to the open source community
- keep some of the source code closed, for as long as they see fit.
That person or organisation might:
- have great technical skills for open and private collaborative development of both code sets
- be less interested in day-to-day communications with end users.
Now if I were that prospective buyer – reading this topic – I'd ask myself whether the community of users can remain positive and mutually supportive when things get tough. Looking back over the past few months, I reckon that the mutual support has been
overwhelmingly positive; it would be disheartening to see things go downhill now.
For whatever reason or set of reasons, Don's no longer a developer with GreenBytes. Organisations change, circumstances change, goals shift, opportunities arise, the world turns. We can express our wishes and disappointments, but we simply can't control those changes. We're the masters of our own lives but not of other individuals.
Yes, I'd like to hear more from people at GreenBytes. Whilst this is a technical forum, at this time their contributions need not be technical (in relation to ZFS). But I never lose sight of the fact that I enjoy using ZEVO at zero cost, and it's simply the fullest-featured approach to ZFS for local storage on a Mac.