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by dpower 2765 days ago
To be absolutely clear, and I've made this point several times in the article - I am not dismissing the open source community.

I am dismissing those that reject proprietary software on principle.

I also made it clear that we would open source our software if we could find a business model that would work for us.

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>I am dismissing those that reject proprietary software on principle.

That dismissal presumably includes both Stallman and the Debian project. I would not dismiss them all that lightly.

>I also made it clear that we would open source our software if we could find a business model that would work for us.

You are making a nice email client. The service of rock solid business email management would presumably be the obvious model to start with. There are more people willing to spend money on that than there are people willing to buy a better email client.

> I am dismissing those that reject proprietary software on principle

If they dismiss it then they don't need it. You can't force anyone to buy things they don't need, at least in free society that is.