There could very easily still be legal issues.
Remember, the legal issues had to do with replacing licensed code
with open source code. If they haven't finished replacing the licensed
code, then there would still be legal issues.
My guess is that they stopped working on replacing the licensed
code so that the situation hasn't changed much since the last message.
A thought just occurred to me. There is one other possible explanation
for the lack of response from Phil and Sophie. What if Phil got in an
accident and was incapacitated or died? We would never know about it.
On the other hand, if that was true, their servers would probably be shut
down, so that's probably not it.
The mystery from a lack of any response is very frustrating...
Stefan
At 05:17 PM 9/22/2009, you wrote:
nope you are right that is the last message.
so I have contacted Phil off list 3 off 4 times but no response.
I find it hard to accept there is still some legal issues.
never could get an answer if they themselves are using 6.
never got an answer if they had a mature product to release when the
time came.
never got a response to my requests for a blog, or monthly updates or
periodic updates or any updates at all.
I send all my requests to the address Phil gave and cc Sophie.
But not even a got your message.
I have both php and witango sites and would love to build more witango
stuff but without any word from Phil why would I?
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On Sep 22, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Rick Sanders wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this was the last message Phil sent out
to this
list back on October 27th, 2008. It's been almost a year since we've
had any
official news.
I don't know if anyone has had any contact with Phil off-list in the
past 11
months but to not have an official announcement or news in the I.T.
world
would make one presume the product is dead.
That being said, there's no need to complain and bitch. As Scott
said the
writing is on the wall, time to move on. This whole discussion was
started
because Robert wanted to contribute something to the community and
maybe
help some people transition a little smoother to another technology
instead
of a crisis in re-writing applications in a hurry because the
technology has
been outgrown or left in the dust. I agree that Robert should get
permission, however if there is no response how long is he supposed
to wait?
I believe the legal definition of copying or unauthorized use is when
someone is making a profit from someone else's technology which is
not the
case here.
Rick Sanders
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Wade [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: October-27-08 7:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Witango-Talk: Witango 6 Update
Contrary to the rumours started on the list version 6 is on the way
and is not dead. The hold up is all legal issues and related to
locating and isolating 3rd part code that has been used in the server
under license and replacing it with open API calls so we can go open
source. This is taking a lot longer than we thought.
We understand that some developers have out grown the platform and
have moved on to other platforms, that is their prerogative. We have
plans to keep supporting Witango while there are people out there
wanting to use it. To this end, can I ask that the you take up
Robert's offer and move the porting to PHP discussion to his forum -
http://devcom.bighead.net/
.
And yes we do have a lot of holidays down here minimum of 30 days
leave a year which is 4 weeks statutory leave plus New Years Day,
Australia Day, Anzac Day, Easter Friday and Monday, Queen's Birthday,
Labour Day, Melbourne Cup Day, Christmas and Boxing Day, etc. Keeps
us a happy and family oriented business.
The Witango portion of our business is running above expectations
albeit a little behind schedule. Apart from that we are just moving
ahead at a steady pace.
If you have any specific issues or questions contact me off list.
Regards
Phil
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