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Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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$300 for a single developer, and the EULA says I can't transfer this license to another person?

I don't understand this per-developer licensing model. Not only is it completely non-enforceable but feels really out-dated and out of touch in the era of FOSS. I will pay for an awesome charting product, but I don't want to have to think about how many developers will touch the code, when, how or why. Something like a license per production site or an unlimited license makes a whole lot more sense to me and allows m…

Agree, I don't think per developer makes sense for this charting library but might make sense for other software. Say a text editor like Textmate or Sublime Text 2. Really, we might as well call it per user licensing.

Re: Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library

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Wow, these interactive charts are great. Can't wait to pay for something like this unless there's already wonderfully interactive charting libraries out there like nvd3 ( http://nvd3.org/ ), dc ( http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/ ) crossfilter ( http://square.github.io/crossfilter/ ) or even anything from d3's website ( https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery )

And microsoft totally stopped selling and developing windows server when there were two other awesome free server operating systems ...

Yes, but Microsoft had more than 90% of the market already, not 0% like in this case.
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