Dear list, >I would in fact say they were never really Open Source at all. They offered a >version that was OSS, but they also offered a version that was 'less buggy' for >several thousand dollars. Hmmmm...
I resent this. Please read on to understand our intentions. We have always made it clear on the Xopus website that we want to develop a commercial version of Xopus as well as a free, open source version because we anticipated we would need the commercial version to fund the open source version. The Apache model offers this possibility to everyone. But being open and honest about this obviously makes you suspect of commercial tendencies in the open source community. We did not anticipate these fierce feelings. We just wanted to find a way to earn a decent living while still helping open source by donating the best browser based validating WYSIWYG XML editor (no) money can buy. Since Xopus is an editor that supports all standard XML/XSLT and Schema we thought it would be hard earning a living from doing integration and customization. How often do you want to customize a standard tool like that? Open source CMS's have far less problems finding funding. They will always need extensive customization, integration, migration, documentation and so on... Xopus won't need all of those. Integration of Xopus into a CMS typically takes a couple of hours (we ourselves did it 4 times, all of them within 1 afternoon). Our initial plan was to create an open source version that was fairly feature complete and stable, release this and help foster a community that would improve the product. We as a company would further develop the code and release it as soon as sufficient funding was raised. And we still abide by this plan. At the moment we are receiving a lot of serious attention from serious commercial parties. We will adapt Xopus to their needs and provide them with the features and support they need. Open Source releases will follow naturally, but first we will try to help our customers. We, as a company, will focus on paid projects for the time being because we have to, as a company. Open Source isn't paying us yet, so we have to focus on other things. Naturally we love to do Xopus-related projects. We already have some, but we would love to have more. >There have been posts to the effect that Xopus has or will close their source >because they have not received any contracts from the effort: You cannot close something that has been opened under an Apache-like license. Xopus was open and will remain open. greetings Lon, Q42 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
