Hopefully you can still make a living. I suspect "open source + commercially hosted" is a good model for something like this?
Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :)
I really appreciate it!
In fact I suggested he look into the open source + hosted business model. Ghost seems to be doing alright with it:
> It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients.
There are plenty of OSS mail clients. I was just looking at RoundCube the other day. It's actually pretty slick as far as traditional email clients go.
I thank you :) I love receiving new 'outside of the box' ideas that will increase DarwinMail's appeal :)
That means that you would not consider using by it unless you could use it for free, presuming you wouldn’t qualify for a commercial license. I only summarized what you said.
Thank you for understanding :)
That's why I mentioned the OSS + hosted version. It would allow to be more open while still making money on the hosted version. Those who are very concerned about privacy can self-host, and those who think self-hosting is too hard (that's many people) can pay to use your hosted version.
See Ghost as a success story that works that way:
That's quite an interesting concept! It would alleviate users concerns :)
I like it!
Ghost has done very well in recent years. I will read up on this.