info, or pay for a version that allows them to "customize" it. I have seen
that before with a lot of CF apps.
With blue dragon's free version I bet we will see a lot more open source CF
projects over time. There are some projects out there though. Go look at
sourceforge and search on ColdFusion. There are bb's, cms's and all sorts
of stuff. Additionally there are things that a lot of the Fusebox community
use like wire frames apps and stuff that are free.
It's around, you just have to look for it.
--
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Overseas Security Advisory Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:41 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: CF-based Forums....
I meant to pipe up about this earlier, but Jon's post kinda pushed a couple
of my buttons.
First of all, I've only used it once but it works fine, that's CFBB at
http://www.adersoftware.com/index.cfm?page=cfbb,
<http://www.adersoftware.com/index.cfm?page=cfbb,> available for free.
Secondly, who says that CF has no "hobbyist angle"? With the emergence of
extremely inexpensive hosts including CF in their packages, Blue Dragon and
MySQL support in MX, there are a lot of avenues where non-corporate web
applications can be built using CF. I do so all the time.
Thirdly, I think that those who write "shared" code, be it freeware,
snippets, artifacts or what have you, and put it out for free public
consumption, aren't doing so to better their names and reputations. If I
write something and put it up for grabs and someone takes it and throws
away my header and footer there's not a lot that I can do, but then again if
it's something that I've already written off as a freebie, should I care?
Hatton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:58 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: CF-based Forums....
>
> CF has no hobbyist angle, nor any real reward for starting
> such a project. It's not like you get the gratitude of
> knowing some school somewhere may install your software
> because it is free, because the platform costs money
> anyway...a free piece of CF software is going to leeched by
> some dev, stuck on some server for some client for
> rock-bottom prices and that's it. The other guys gets the
> money, you get jack other than get even more emails about bugs :).
>
> It's not like phpBB couldn't be ported to CF really easily
> (even easier if CF supported basic stuff like overloading),
> but why bother?
> You aren't going to get any kickbacks from MM. Just install PHP...
>
> --
> jon
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 2:34:04 PM, you wrote:
> SS> Ok, here is a good questions for the cf folks....
>
> SS> Why is it that I can find excellent free ASP.Net, ASP,
> PHP, BBOARDS
> SS> out on the net.
>
> SS> When I look for one in CF all I find is dittkus? I mean
> it's not a
> SS> big deal as I've written 'em, used 'em and abused 'em but
> why is it
> SS> that the majority of CF developers don't develop for the
> enjoyment
> SS> of developing but always want to try to get a buck out of it?
>
> SS> If the answer is to make money then why are there so many
> free ones
> SS> in other languages that are without a doubt excellent and
> full-featured?
>
> SS> The few free Bboards I have seen for CF suck harder than
> a ... hmm
> SS> better not go on with that thought.
>
>
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