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Subject:    [kde-promo] as far as theKompany is concerned
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-12-06 7:07:52
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You know, we've done a bucket of free stuff and it always gets forgotten 
for some reason.  I've spent more time and money on Aethera than any other 
product in our stable for whatever insanity and now we will give it 
away.  The updated Qt version is done now and we are testing 
internally.  Since I'm the only one here talking about this that has had to 
deal with the realities of making money at this, I think I'm in a better 
position to says what works and what doesn't.  The biggest mistake I made 
was funding so much open source stuff early on, I thought it would be a 
boon to everyone, but it wasn't apparently.

As far as the comment on Quanta - I couldn't be more happy with the sales 
of that product, it's kicking butt now and is the fastest seller in our 
group of applications, so I don't think we made a mistake there.  Sure we 
are working on a lot of different things, but for the most part we have as 
many people working on each app as can reasonably work on it, we had some 
stalls in the middle of this year due to financial constraints and 
customers that defaulted on contracts with us, so we deal with the 
reality.  We've not raised one outside dime of money at this point and I 
think we've got a far bigger stable of products than Ximian for their $18 
million.

If everyone is so sure of how to be profitable in this space, I have yet to 
see any of you do it.  Also, we get far more fan letters than we do hate mail.


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


 
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