I thought the whole point of open source was so that a company could come along and get access to a well developed application free of cost and modify it for commercial exploitation. It seems to me that Idaya are, doing just that, commercially exploiting the FreeVSD code to make ProVSD which I imagine is entirely different software.
I hope no one will start moaning at us when we launch our hosting service that uses FreeVSD extensively because we are not sharing some of the proprietary parts of the system which we have written with everyone. I think one of the best things about open source is that you can't just pay the highest price to have the best use of it and that instead you have to work very hard to develop it and if you are nice you share your developments with the community. That way all the contributors can sell good products based around a solid core project. I don't have much idea about how the GPL licensing works because I haven't read much in to it but at the end of the day Idaya seem to have written pretty much all of code in the core application (looking in the CVS update log) and quite why they are being slated for all this work seems a bit strange. They don't have any obligation to provide a new RPM for people as soon as it is released and at the moment if I were then with the mood on this list I would be thinking twice about why they should provide it. Anyway I would like to say thank you to Nick, everyone at Idaya and also everyone else who has contributed to FreeVSD and hope that from now on everyone can do less moaning and more contributing to the development then we will all benefit. Next year we hope to make our first real contribution in the shape of a comprehensive user manual and developers documentation to help fuel interest in developing it also I will take this opportunity to let everyone know I am doing the cat for FreeVSD in the ODP to promote awareness and if any hosting companies want to be listed or if any one thinks their site fits please submit it the URL is http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/FreeVSD/ Also if you don't like Idaya's products then you do have another option you can either buy theirs or use FreeVSD and make your own add-ons to bring it up to scratch. As long as they provide CVS to help the development I think they are well within their rights and I am very grateful for them providing CVS access for this project and for all the development. Brendan www.hoston.it ------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
