Help Porting Our TomeRaider to Ubuntu (Scott Dier)

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On 8:02:23 am 29/06/2006 "Mat Ripley" <mat at yadabyte.com> wrote:
> What we don't want is to lose revenue from our Windows and Handheld
> sales of TomeRaider.

Then don't open source it. As soon as you do, anyone can use the code to
figure out the tomeraider file format and clean-room reverse engineer their
own version and put it into their own e-book reader, at which point your
competitors (be they commercial or free, and on any platform) can
potentially cut into your revenue.

Personally, I'm all for opensourcing it - there is a lot of good content in
Tomeraider format that I would appreciate being able to read in a
convenient, native application. Even if you end up deciding you can't open
source it, you can still consider a closed source port. If you still
release it for free (as in beer) and allow redistribution it can be
included in Ubuntu's multiverse repository (a la Java).

Your call :)

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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