pktm

I have to agree. There's almost always _something_ of value the business has, even if you're not sure what that is. (Even your list of customers, however small that might be, has some value.)

I understand why you're reluctant to name the business, but you may want to reconsider since you're probably too close to the situation to clearly identify all of the possible assets.

Can one do this and distribute a closed-source app this way? Is it practical to do so?

In addition to the feedback we got on our choice of distros, we also got a number of complaints about our offering a closed-source app for Linux.

Again, that's probably my ignorance of the Linux market in general, but I have the sense users are pretty evenly divided on this point.

(Thanks, BTW!)

Ah! That's certainly something they don't make clear on their pages!

Yes, please. If you're willing to contact me off-list (see profile for email address), I'd be most grateful.

Yeah I can see this going both ways, really. (That is, similar sales volume or drastically reduced sales volume.)

And, as I say, I think there's a real benefit to taking something like this and opening it up, I'm just not sure I'm willing to risk it - for now - especially since I'm already competing against _one_ free alternative.

Ah, interesting idea!

I looked at the apps you recommended, and it seems like at least Paraben has some BlackBerry support already.

How might we distinguish ourselves?

Agreed. It just seems a shame to let a reasonably robust, mature codebase which is all-knowing about a very widely-used piece of technology go gentle into that good night. Surely someone out there has a new and previously unimagined (by me) use for it.

Interestingly enough, a Linux build _was_ one of the pivots we'd experimented with. Maybe it was because we chose the wrong distro, or our general ignorance of what Linux users might want, but this seemed to generate little to no interest amongst the Linux market/s. If anyone here knows better, or wants to tell us what we did wrong, I'm happy to hear it.