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Re: I've issued Dynamic Draw Professional.
de Roger Johansson 06/27/2006 07:49
Masayuki Fukushiro wrote:
> Roger Johansson wrote:
> > Is it okay to distribute your program to other people,
> > via freeware web sites, for example?
> My program has been listed in FWT.
> I suppose that you have submitted for me.
> Thank you !!
It was somebody else. I asked you because I know we have people here
who help with such things. They just need to know that a program is
very good and that it is okay with the author to distribute it.
So I just asked you if it would be okay, and then other people helped
you.
For the future you can maybe think about if you want to have full
control over this program. If you are the only person who can change it
and make it better.
That is one way of seeing it, and I assumed that this is what you want
at this moment.
Many programmers want to have full control of their program like that.
But you can think a little about that. There are many ways to let other
programmers help you make the program better. You can let others send
you suggestions and you choose to implement new ideas. Or you can make
a project of it, still under your control but letting others study your
program code and suggest changes.
Or you can go all the way and make it open source and let others make
it better and distribute their versions.
There are many variants of cooperation you can consider.
Of course we do not want to think about unpleasant things, but anyone
of us could die tomorrow, and what would then happen to your program?
As the license is written now nobody can make it better, so it will
remain as it is and other program will be developed which become
better, and people forget your program. If you make it possible for
others to continue the work if you lose interest or disappear the
program will have a future independent of you.
In a few years we will all use linux instead of windows, and we will
only use free software, open source programs.
That is something to think about for the future, maybe.
--
Roger J.