[Pdx-pm] MacHeist

[Joshua Keroes]

Welcome, Brian.

All: Brian's a good guy that I've known for five years through
non-programming pursuits.

Brian: I think the droids you're looking for are over at http://pdxruby.org

Cheers,
Joshua

On 12/14/06, Brian Todd <btodd at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>  I am new on this list. I was looking for a group of local developers that
> work with Ruby on Rails and I came across this. Unfortunately, I missed the
> meeting last night because I had plans. I just wanted to say hi and...
>  I ran across a quote from the developer of Delicious Library that was happy
> about the deal. Here is his quote.
>
> "I think events like this get a lot of publicity, so they bring in new
> customers that I wouldn't reach on my own. So I'm not really sabotaging my
> sales; I'm supplementing them. Seriously, if you came to me and said, "I'm
> going to resell Delicious Library to customers on the moon, who you've never
> met and can't reach, for $1 a copy," I'd say, "Go for it!" I don't care if I
> only get a penny if it's a penny more than I would have gotten on my own."
>
> -Brian Todd
>
> On Dec 14, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> Last night I mentioned http://macheist.com as selling $300 worth of good Mac
> apps for $50 plus giving 25% to charity.  Randal said the developers of the
> apps they're reselling are unhappy about this as MacHeist only paid for bulk
> licensing possibly without letting them know what they intended to do.  So
> far I haven't found anything to confirm this.  It doesn't smell right
> either, for most small software vendors obscurity is much worse than
> potential lost sales.
>
> Randal, got some backup?
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