Hi, Am Dienstag, 20. April 2010 15:11:48 schrieb Piotrek Karas: > Björn Dieding wrote: > > Why was there the need to rename them? > > > > Best regards, > > Björn Dieding > > easyComponents could have been an alternative close yet distinct ;) > > While I understand why this can be a good decision from the project's > perspective (the ASF thing, not the name ;)) and I think it's great that > eZ Systems were open for it, I can't see why eZ didn't want to keep it > inside and try to give it some more life internally...
Perhaps they concluded that it's not their core business and it's too much investment without enough revenue potential for the company's mission? (At the moment everybody is talking about that one other Framework. So promoting the components is much work.) I guess, that eZ has almost 100% of the core library they need for eZ Publish. But if the project is dead, there is limited use even for them. And there would be the risk of a fork (making things worse). So it's much better/cheaper for them to get some people working on it. And it wouldn't be a good image for the company if they won't maintain it enough in the future. What should (potential) customers think if even a commercial company is not able to back such a project. And what image could this cause for eZ Publish. What I learned from eZ: "We are happy if other people make money with our software because this helps us as well." Thus, this is a consequent step for them. And if the components are actively developed, each eZ Publish customer can use the added features that are provided by the Zeta community - and that eZ won't be able to provide. Cheers Thomas > > Cheers, > Piotrek -- Thomas Nunninger Steinhalde 108 79117 Freiburg Tel.: +49 761 1201850 Mobil: +49 163 7115153 http://nunninger.info USt-IdNr: DE259832548 -- Components mailing list Components@lists.ez.no http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/components
