Reply to thread guestx: "...the notion of people paying Castle on a per-use basis shows an element of ignorance that would suggest that Castle merely want to offer the code under some kind of 'shared source' agreement." Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're suggesting here, but I don't see why (as others have suggested) Castle can't be talking about some kind of dual licencing agreement. Lots of open source vendors do this, allowing them to release the source under a genuine open-source licence, whilst at the same time charging commercial users who choose the commercial licence: [link] Timephoenix makes a good point about the ROMs. There's nothing to stop RO Ltd carrying on in exactly the same way they already are even with RO open sourced. They just use the commercial licence or charge for putting the open source version into ROM. flypig on 16/08/06 12:22AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Please login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.

Search the archives Today's featured article The Editor's Decision is Final - Part One We kick off a new series of lighthearted news coverage with some articles which didn't quite make it to your screens  6 comments, latest by peprice on 4/8/01 5:11PM. Published: 1 Aug 2001 Random article News Quickies Iyonix and Omega News  12 comments, latest by Dougal on 13/2/04 11:00PM. Published: 12 Feb 2004 Useful links News and media: Iconbar • MyRISCOS • ArcSite • RISCOScode • ANS • C.S.A.Announce • Archive • Qercus • RiscWorld • Drag'n'Drop • GAG-News Top developers: RISCOS Ltd • RISC OS Open • MW Software • R-Comp • Advantage Six • VirtualAcorn Dealers: CJE Micros • APDL • Castle • a4 • X-Ample • Liquid Silicon • Webmonster Usergroups: WROCC • RONE • NKACC • IRUG • SASAUG • ROUGOL • RONWUG • MUG • WAUG • GAG • RISCOS.be Useful: RISCOS.org.uk • RISCOS.org • RISCOS.info • Filebase • Chris Why's Acorn/RISC OS collection • NetSurf Non-RISC OS: The Register • The Inquirer • Apple Insider • BBC News • Sky News • Google News • xkcd • diodesign

© 1999-2009 The Drobe Team. Some rights reserved, click here for more information
Powered by MiniDrobeCMS, based on J4U | Statistics
"RISC OS news reporting? More like Heat magazine"
Page generated in 0.0614 seconds.