Sparanoid

今天在 Source­Forge 上看到的：

I have received the offer from one com­pany to sell 7​-zip​.org domain and 7-​​Zip name. They also sug­gest me to keep devel­op­ing of 7-​​Zip as open-​​source pro­gram and they will sup­port and pro­mote 7-​​Zip. That com­pany is not big as I understand.

They say that they don’t plan to include ban­ners /​ adware /​ spy­ware to pro­gram. But they can make some addi­tional Pro ver­sion or some­thing like that to make money. 7-​​Zip is under GNU LGPL, so they can’t just close open-​​source 7-​​Zip project after buy­ing. As I under­stand in worst case (if fur­ther open-​​source devel­op­ment under name “7-​​Zip” will be not pos­si­ble), devel­op­ers can use some other name and site.

What do you think about that offer?

Do you know any good or bad sto­ries about sim­i­lar sales in open-​​source world?

7​-zip​.org site now has about 600K unique vis­i­tors per month. And there are about 30K down­loads of 7-​​Zip pro­gram per day from main site /​ source­forge. Is there a way to esti­mate pos­si­ble value/​price of domain, and program’s brand name in that case?

I don’t say that it’s 100% that I’ll sell 7-​​Zip. I just need your opin­ions about that offer.

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