could I have a forum on that site?

thanks

I am not completely sure of my facts but I understand that the advertising model is not really viable.  It will create a small income stream but will lack any real punch.

I think a payment option would be suitable but I think that much better than an outright purchase plan would be a shareware oppportunity.  Many commercial and academic sites abide by the shareware principal and fee income is sustained providing a ready market for upgrades.

The fee level will have to be assessed but I would have thought 15 or 19.99 is reasonable.

The problem with this is that much of the core would continue to be perl scripted and this would need compiling.  I do not think this would resolveve everything but it may improve security by permitting a timeslice check to remove the operational capability after say 1 month.

The optimum solution would be to use the success of this work as a demonstration of your ability and to look toward finding a full time job in a related field such as programming or research.

Well done!

I for 1 absolutely agree with everything ChrisK! ... except this:

"The problem with this is that much of the core would continue to be perl scripted and this would need compiling.  I do not think this would resolveve everything but it may improve security by permitting a timeslice check to remove the operational capability after say 1 month."

1. Perl scripting is cool.
2. How do you mean compiling?  Perl "by default" is an interpretive language.  It can be compiled, but...
3. Carefully coded Perl is as safe as carefully coded anything-else.
4. I'm not sure if removing operational capability after any time period would violate the GPL.  Lol, guess i'm gunna go back and read my own post.

Other than that 1 paragraph, right on the money.  (Oh and I just voted 4 ya!)

Hey

Maybe you could make a version that has the bottom say "Owned by $adminnamehere", with the option of removing the copyright.

That way those who purchase a license can remove the copyright and feel like they own it.

Or what you could also do is make 2 releases. A free release and a licensed release. The licensed users will all get to download the latest top of the line version, while the free release will only see maybe 2 versions back.

That would be a great incentive to purchase, because I have a few versions old copy of the script (yep, WITHOUT THE LATEST SECURITY UPDATE HAHAHAHAHAHA), and I still think its great. But seeing the reputation thing on this forum, and not on mine makes me want it because I like it.

I think thats a real good idea, because free users will be able to see the new features on the forum here, and on other licensed forums (maybe you could make a licensed forums page).

Tim

Dual licensing is becoming common.  Avalon uses it to.

Well, yeah.  But, I don't want to spend all my time maintaining so many things.  lol  I donno though, I might just do it.  But as of yet, it doesn't seem as if anyone want's to anyway.  I'm just giving forums away for free right now .... but the server has gone down before, so that's the only reason why someone might not want to use it.  lol

the uptime is 99.99%. I know because I use one. it is always up!
I post my site to all search engines, directories and indexes with
http://selfpromotion.com and there is advancing incoming traffic...

Yes, perl is interpreted but it can be compiled.  I still think that Justin would be well advised to look at this as a demonstration of ability and to secure a full-time job on that basis.  I accept the dleet suggestion that some restrictions would fall outside the will of GPL.  Oh well!

Now I am exposed to the move over here in the UK to look at online journals for academics to ease the data storage and retrieval problems and to provide a measurable legal document.  I think the scripts used in Blah could easily be adopted to create a simple weblog/journal type system with searchable displays in chronological order with some category matching.  Sounds so simple but it might be a nice new project.

Anyway to conclude, a substantial system, Justin, one in which you can be proud.  I see elswehere that you are going on holiday and I wish you a pleasant break.  Oh, and try at least one bottle of beer...have fun.

Best regards
Chris

yep. there is a catch 22 here.

people will pay if they know it's exactly what they are looking for.

they will not look, if it's not free.

time will tell.