I'm interested to hear more of the story.
How long did it take to start making money?
Do many people download and install?
Have you ever felt concerned you'd be forked by competition?
Where does the income come from primarily?
How long did it take to start making money?
Do many people download and install?
Have you ever felt concerned you'd be forked by competition?
Where does the income come from primarily?
A lot of people do run their own versions, these are generally universities who do not want their data going to 3rd parties. Its impossible for us to get exact numbers on it though.
We were worried about other people stealing our code, some other people do run our site however your self hosted version is always going to be best, it will have all the SEO, more users, get the updates quickest.
Most of our income is via self hosted.
How did the LaTeX project owner feel about the project name being in your company name? Did it ever come up?