max- opened this issue on Feb 26, 2003 ยท 63 posts
pauljs75 posted Mon, 03 March 2003 at 10:42 AM
I've got an even better idea now... (I'm coming up with some crazy stuff again.)
Drum roll please
What IF... (note the big IF) The software users owned the program? No, not just the permission to use a single copy which you paid for. I mean, what if somehow everyone owned the licence... Which would make it public domain. Effectively changing it from proprietary to open source? To do this, somebody trustworthy would have to start something like "Bryce.org", where donations are towards purchasing the licence from Corel. The idea would be to foster the further development of a program that's currently languishing in their possesion. Now that would even be cooler than trying to work it into the hands of just one company that's better suited to the program. And if it were open source, it could be developed by multiple companies. Kinda like Linux is with its OS. But I dunno how well something like that could work for a graphics program. Maybe I'm just trippin' tho. ;)
Hmmm...
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