This is a old thread....i think to close this sections but...is correct reply
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When i wrote this thread i was developing a new version of SARDU for Windows, Linux and Mac. The first multiboot builder cross platform. This project is at a standstill for many months now.
Remember that my job is not in the computer science. I do not gain from IT. In my business, computer science is just a cost.
I can understand the thought of introducing a payed version, but would it then mean there also would be a limited version for non-paying ?
probably yes
Furthermore commercial-ware attracts crackers and other web-criminals who will just hack SARDU and after injecting it with Malware spread it on the internet. You would then need more of SARDU for solving the damage resulting from usage. Also the reputability and trustworthiness of SARDU could become an issue, since casual PC users aren't able to distinguish between the original and the bad versions. Since SARDU is a security tool it would be a minefield i.m.o.
At this moment, if you make a search, there are crack, keygen and others for SARDU. When software is popular these problems come. What you say is now. Is my problem? Can I do anything? NO ![Smile :)](https://www.sarducd.it/forum/images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Perhaps you could introduce an "Enterprise license". This would be for companies or professionals who use SARDU.
SARDU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. As a firm believer in open source and freeware software I can't endorse the American licensing system, since it limits peoples freedom and creativity.
But the "Enterprise license", meaning SARDU in a non-commercial setting would still be freeware, may help you to find some financial resources to maintain the project.
Do consider too that when you sell a product it needs to be 100% reliable and complete.
You talk about theory, I practice. I receive hundreds of emails with the signing of large companies, multinationals that use Sardu and asking for help, and added. someone paid me?
NO I have three hosting to be paid, my computer, that I use to program, has four years....
Complete? Find me another software can build what he builds SARDU. SARDU is the only one that supports all installations. Now my question is very very very easy. A technician working for free? When a technician install windows you pay? 30 €? 60€? With SARDU the technician saves a lot of time. The time is money.
The classic phrase is, "if you add this I make a donation!" bullshit, bullshit and bullshit. You saw the donations after I did the addition? I do not. Gone with the job done.
The truth is that the technicians are like leeches who want to earn by the work of others, without recognizing the merits, thinking that the effort to have pressed a button, justify them to earn free.
This is the reason for which I have stopped developing the version 3.0, this is The pattern for which SARDU may appear incomplete and without guide.
I have a daughter and my daughter don't eat dreams. If I must choose between change a PC, and to feed my daughter what do you think of mine choice?
In Italy the situation is tragic.
I'm sorry if I have seemed rude, I would like to see you in my place.
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