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I know many advantages of Open Source Software. But what are the advantages of Commercial software from customer view? When should I use/buy a Commercial Software instead of a Open Source Software?
Started by Horcrux7 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I would suggest using commercial software....
Sometimes, commercial offerings have better documentations and feel more 'finished in either way.
Advantages of commercial software:
most of the time there is a good support team you can pay).
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Can I use upx packer to compress a commercial program? Or does GPL restrict me from doing that?
Started by James Couvares on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Note is added to the commercial....
There's a special exception for commercial applications so they can use UPX.
Edit: Also, think of it this way, if you couldn't do this, then any at the UPX license .
Including a commercial program.
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Are they any commercial ecommerce and CMS type packages for RoR?
Started by mrblah on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Ruby%5Fon%5FRails
but if you also meant 'commercial cms', the quoted ones are MIT licensed.
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Is commercial use of Google Sites allowed?
Started by corgrath on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
We don't allow websites that have the primary purpose of redirecting .
commercial uses we don't allow.
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Can I use SQL Express for commercial use? or it should be only used for personal development and learning purposes? What are the conditions if I can use it for commercial purpose?
Started by nils_gate on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Here is a good comparison of features:
http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en....
You can, but SQL Express has some limitations that might give you problems down the road .
However, there are database size and memory limitations in place .
Yes, you can.
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Can I use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ (licensed under gplv3) as a part of my commercial application?
Started by Kowalikus on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You can always use GPL software in a commercial context; you can even charge people money.
Yes, but then your commercial application would have to be distributed under the terms of gplv3 something.
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Hi,
Can I use Visual C# express to produce commercial applications? And are there any other licensing issues.
Thank you
Started by martani_net on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The limitations are mostly technical, what features.
From the FAQ :
Can I use Express Editions for commercial use? Yes to produce both personal and commercial code.
Yes, you can.
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Can I use mySQL in my commercial windows project? Are there any license issues? Which version should I use?
Started by sandip on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
As per their explanation , you can use it for free but you will be obligated to release... .
commercial program, you must either make your program GPL (i.e., open source, which apparantly not your choice) or Pay Them For a Commercial License".
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Are there any good commercial .NET logging tools out there? I'm aware of the open source versions such as log4net and NLog, but does anyone know of any .NET logging tools with commercial support?
Started by plaureano on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
The company that started log4net also offers commercial support for it: http://www.neoworks.com/products/opensource/log4net/support.
Open Source and Commercial Support are not mutually exclusive.
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We are currently using SharpZipLib but since it uses the GPL we need to replace it with a commercial lib.
Started by Erin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
But if you really need a commercial product.
See my comment about #ziplib on the main post...
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