Hi, The commercial succes of an Open Source product depends on the success the Open Source community supports the effort of the project.
Here are the issues i care when evaluating a software: - How stable it is - Technical documentation - Commercial Support - Ammount of people supporting the development - How many lead programmers are and how their relationship with the OS community is. - How strong the Company is (in case if the company goes down, all the users wont have to look for another alternative solution) Regarding FreeVSD, that is a great software, but there is (personaly) a lack of interest of integrating the Open Source community heavy into the project, which could lead the software into a stronger distribution, support and of course better commercial an economical benefits from a customized and media distributed version of the software (such as the admin GUIs). We're using FreeVSD since early stages (i don't remember nobody answered my first questions in the mailing list), and i'll like to keep using it. If i've to put more of my time to make the software keep going i will, but i'll expect the same effort from Idaya, enforcing and providing more interest into the Open Source community. The last email from Tim it looked to me like: "There it is, if you like what there is, take it, if not, buy it" Yes, there is a little of true in that, but you guys wont have to forget that the Open Source community is mainly the one that could make a success or a failure of a project. That looks like you guys will keep working on the software but now, without putting too much effort into the software that Open Source community will use to keet it going. Said this, yes, Pablo, i'm interested on helping in any way/time/knowledge/effort that i might provide to make the software more widely supported. Regards, > --- > Who cares whether or not you can use the CD? That's not the issue here I am > afraid. > When I started this thread I was more concerned with knowing what direction > Idaya was going in. It's not really an issue of whether it's free or not. > The product is damn good. I don't mind paying. But... > What I do mind is this "sucker you into paying" tactic that Idaya is > employing. Come on! Get serious. All you are managing to do is p*** > people off. Nickel and diming your way to a commercial product is not going > to achieve anything positive. > That said, here is a solution. I will be creating a distribution of the CVS > version of freeVSD (as is anyone's right based on the GPL) so that others > can download it. If it's really that much trouble for Idaya to do this, > then I will sacrifice my time to get it done. If anyone has a tar ball > they'd like to contribute or simply wants to help with this please let me > know. The site will be at rfreevsd.sourceforge.net (should be available in > 24 hours). The "R" is for "Recent". If you want to participate in > maintaining "Recent" releases let me know and I will add you to the project. > I hope that this furthers the objectives of maintaining a readily available > distribution for download. I don't believe in forking code; that is not the > intention of this. > Thanks, > Pablo _______________________________________________________ Urivan Saaib Presidente CiberNET Mexico Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (6) 175.71.95 ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
