[Pdx-pm] MacHeist
Brian Todd
btodd at mac.com
Fri Dec 15 13:18:44 PST 2006
Hello Josh,
Thanks for the heads-up. I should have known you would be hanging
around.
-Brian Todd
On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Joshua Keroes wrote:
> 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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