Remember, they did execute a DCMA takedown on the OpenDDR project last year. In was meritless and likely meant to clear the playing field of any alternative options.
________________________________ From: Serban Ghita <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:15 AM Subject: Re: In the news Hello-hello, I don't see a real reason on ranting about WURFL and the people behind the current business that is. From what I know it was free and open source licensed until one point that they changed the license to a more restrictive one and turned the API into a business. I'm guessing that was more of a business decision to monetize the amount of work that they put in the project. Whatever! Serban On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: Carlos, > > >Glad you have the similar opinions on WURFL and some of the people behind it >(as you're not bothering to look him up) Their code is unlikely to be >"scalable" or "optimized" now either, except they hope to rip-off people who >are naive or rich enough to afford 20-50k(!) $ per year annual data providing >fees now with the same non-optimized services. > > >Those in the community they also tried to rip-off or at least disappointed are >looking for alternatives, which is a main reason we are trying to get more >scalable, yet affordable solutions than their unreasonable offerings for a >broader community. > > >If you plan to educate MobFox about alternatives like DeviceMap or OpenDDR, >feel free to do so. They might also appreciate, many just lack proper >knowledge about better alternatives. > > >Regards, >Werner > > > >On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Carlos D'Agostino <[email protected]> >wrote: > >Heh, Werner I can see you have strong opinions on WURFL and the "italian >dumbass" (I think his name was Luca Passiani -- I'm not even bothering to look >it up). I don't know the status of WURLF currently, but back in 2010 (I think) >their code was certainly not "scalable", or "optimized", or <insert web jargon >to produce marketing orgasms>. The data was quite extensive however, and for >people operating in markets that don't carry modern handsets (like South >Africa and Kenya.. and those "people" include yours truly), it was pretty neat. >> >> >> >>I've notified my marketeers about MobFox, perhaps we do some business with >>them, and put that article to the test :) >> >> >>Regards, >> >> >> >>On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>The only aspect that is indeed somewhat interesting is MobFox also has some >>REST API: >>>http://dev.mobfox.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#MobFox_REST_API >>> >>> >>> >>>Beside other legacy stuff like WAP or WURFL >> >> >> >>-- >>Carlos D'Agostino. > -- Serban Ghita http://ro.linkedin.com/in/serbanghita http://ghita.org/ | http://mobiledetect.net
