Re: Official ODBC announcement

Steve Wampler wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>Why? Because we have specialized, complex hardware (telescopes
>>>and instruments) purchased with software from vendors using
>>>non-GPL compatible licenses. We, as a non-profit organization,
>>>cannot afford the extra $$$
>>
>>
>>You can't afford 25.00? Or even 200.00? Or even a 50% discount
>>do non-profits?
>
>
> We're talking on the order of $500,000(USD) dollars -

No were not. My point was if Command Prompt charged you 25.00 or even
200.00 or based on the above number even 1000.00 dollars.

these are not
> inexpensive systems (a telescope mount assembly is millions of
> dollars) and (whether it's politic or not) the vendors have no desire to
> put their source out. We cannot pass such project cost increases on to
> our customers (we have none). Of course, if we can get a non-GPL license
> for ODBC for the smaller sums you've mentioned, that would help. (The last
> GPL package we tried to negotiate a non-GPL license source for [still
> open-source, just not GPL] came with a >$25,000(USD) price tag.

Good lord. We zero intention of doing that. We are talking about
a ODBC driver. Now if it were Replicator... That would probably be a
different story.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> I realize we're a fringe case. But I do hope people will consider
> that such fringe cases do exist.
>

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