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| Posted by Puybaret at Mar 26, 2012, 9:09:00 AM |
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Re: How to join the developer team? And what about the book? Haven't you sold many of them? As the print run of the 2500 books has been exhausted for a while (but the book is still available as an eBook), I forgot to mention the revenue I got from the book! Anyway you should know that most authors earn little directly from technical books. It takes a lot of time to write them (the Swing book represents more than 1700 hours of work!) and the editor pays only a small percentage (7 to 10%) for each sold book.But do you have plans to make a big extension to the "core" code in the future? It depends on my free time and/or who can pay or help for developing a feature. The current roadmap of Sweet Home 3D is available here, but there can be other nice ideas to program among the ones found in the wishlist forum or in feature requests tracker. Oke so someone can't rename the program, change the UI ( user interface ) and pretend that he wrote it? But how can you proof that he didn't wrote it? It's not because having the source code makes it easier to create a similar software, that every developer will do it. As soon as he would make it available to the public, some users could recognize the similarities between the two programs and report it if the modified version isn't distributed under GNU GPL. It happened once and the company finally bought me a license. But we're not in a perfect world, and I guess it could happen some other times without me being aware of it.---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
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