The concept of Trustware License is very fair:
The users only pay for it if it helps them to
generate income. This would give some motivate the
writer to continue to improve their component and
documentation.

--- In IBObjects@egroups.com, Marco Lauria <mslauria@t...> wrote:
> At 11.54 05/01/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >Claudio,
> >
> >> > Maybe the trustware scheme itself needs more marketing. But
the italian
> >> > market for IBO is small anyway...
> >>
> >> Don't you think that probably the IB market itself may be still
small in
> >> Italy or not?
> >
> >Yes it is. But something is moving.
> >The point is that only a small fraction of the small (but growing)
group
> >of IB developers in Italy seems to use IBO. The BDE, FIB+ and IBX
seem
> >to be preferred alternatives. I suspected that maybe IBO being
perceived
> >as a commercial (thus more costly) product could play a part on
this
> >trend.
> >--
> > ____
> >_/\/ando
> >
> Nando as you know I am italian,
> I try to sell IBO to my developer customers....
> and I think that every one that uses IB for commercial developing
> will buy IBO only that IBO should be explained better.
> I mean:
> the ones that now hosts italian IBO home page when Borland created
IBX
> at SMAU 1999 told me and another friend that IBO wasn't a good
package
> as it was developed on a mind view of only one person and only by
one person.
> Now that the time is changed and that they could have some income
from IBO
> they
> created a page and something else.
> This is an example of why here IBO isn't good known.
> There are also many other people that think that you should use
only free
> software development tools.
> And usually I ask them this question:
> "Do you usually sell programs or give them as presents to your
customers?"
> and I usually get no answers.....
> My two cents,
> Marco