>If we open source Railo and we would be faster in some >cases than other >vendors, they could easily adapt our code
Sure they could adopt your code and make their product faster, but they would also still be charging a wholloping price for their product. Doug B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gert Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:17 AM Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > Don't get me wrong, I do not have anything against open source. BUT we > are yet to small and I don't think that the community will dig into our > tens of thousands of lines of code first to understand it and second to > fix it. If Adobe would do it, then this would be different. > If we open source Railo and we would be faster in some cases than other > vendors, they could easily adapt our code > > And just like James posted. If you have a decompiler etc. it is already > open source. > > Greetings / Grüsse > Gert Franz > Customer Care > Railo Technologies GmbH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.railo.ch > > Join our Mailing List / Treten Sie unserer Mailingliste bei: > deutsch: http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/railo/ > english: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railo_talk/ > > > > Doug Brown schrieb: > > A huge difference!! Number one is that you have the entire community helping > > to develop the project, so bug fixes and features are done in record time > > instead of waiting on a "few" developers to bring you the things that you > > need the most. Why has mySql done so well? Gee I will answer that myself. > > MySql offers an open source product and were able to grow their client base > > while at the same time having the people that downloaded their software also > > develop their software and reduce their costs. Free and closed source simply > > means that we have to wait for you to implemnt things and that it takes > > longer for community acceptance. > > > > Doug B. > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gert Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:15 AM > > Subject: Re: Anyone interested in Railo hosting? > > > > > > > >> why? what's the difference between open source and free? > >> > >> > >> Rick Root schrieb: > >> > >>> For what it's worth, if Railo went open source.. now *THAT* would be > >>> interesting... > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268991 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
