> If I had developed on FreeVSD, I would have released the code as > GPL, free for everyone to use > and improve. > I think you don't really believe in open sourcing anymore, > judging from the fact that you > support Idaya in their source-closing effort. I still believe in > the power of open source. > I've been main developer for phpAdsNew, an advertising system, > for about a year (until I > didn't have enough time anymore), and I received patches nearly > daily (there were days when I > received over 10 patches and add-ons). It truelly works, as long > as you give people what they > need : a working product with the features they need. phpAdsNew > is still the most popular php > advertising system around, because of 2 reasons : "simply the > best around" (quote from a > magazine) and it's totally free. >
I take your point here but at the end of the day I don't think FreeVSD will die; after all it is still there and running the site is not going to cost too much the main problem for Idaya I am gussing is that after spending probably millions doing lots of development on this project the company may or may not be selling as many products as it needs to stay afloat. If they are not then quite rightly they should loose focus on spending time developing a project that doesn't bring in any cash and focus on a product to make them money which they feel is ProVSD. Then perhaps if they can sell their products they will have more resources to devote to FreeVSD. I think you can apprechiate that they are in a different situation to you, in that Open source was their day job for a long time, and for you it sounds like a hobby. > > But alas, Idaya doesn't seem to believe in it anymore. They might > as well simply say FreeVSD > is dead, because nobody will be contributing to a project from > which the ideas and efforts end > up in a commercial effort anyway... > I disagree again I am not sure about the licencing and I am probably looking a bit silly to all the free software vetrans? But as a company we have two programmers working on FreeVSD internally not full time but we are happy to release *some* of our patches once we have finished to the FreeVSD project and also the documentation we have been writing. We know that by doing this we are going to give some people our work and they will use it comercailly and compete against us but we won't give them everything we do and the bits we do give them combined with what has already been done and combined with other contributions will hopefully serve to make a better core product for others to build on. Also we realise that commercailly the more people who use FreeVSD the better becasue then we don't have to work so hard to explain the benefits and differences and also if people want to transfer in to our service from another FreeVSD host becasue we will be so much better :) then it will be easy to do. There are lots of other points but I don't mind paying programmers to work on software we might give away the source for free one day. So we for one will be contributing to a project from which the ideas and efforts end up in a commercial effort even if we make no money from that effort. Brendan ------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
