Scenario 1 - Phil is letting the product die... Perhaps we could group together and purchase the code and then we could have truly Open Source Licensing and rework the code ourselves.
Scenario 2 - Phil is in over his head and is trying to find someone to purchase the product to pick up where he left off. Scenario 3 - Phil wants to claim bankruptcy and the only way he can is by showing massive losses on the product (not sure if this is feasible in Australia). Scenario 4 - Phil is still wrangling through the legal process and got fed up with all the negativity on this list. Scenario 5 - Phil is dead. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Witango 6 Update I really never liked the fact that they used the term "Open Source". If you look back at the updates from phil, it was not going to be open source. It was still paid software, where if you agreed to the restrictions, you could download the source and modify it yourself and then submit back to witango. So it still costs money, you still pay for it, but you can modify the code, and if they like it, they own the modification and then sell it to others. So its not Open Source. Its a way for them to try to have unpaid developers. From Phil New Licensing ------------- Once the beta testing has been completed and version 6 goes into release, the source code for both the server and studio will be open sourced under its own license. Witango will continue to be a commercial product and a license will need to be purchased. There will be 3 editions of the Server: The Lite edition - no change to current license conditions The Developer edition - no change to current license conditions. The Professional edition - single machine license, with no limitation on number of processes or CPUs. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [email protected] - [email protected] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Michael Heth wrote: > > On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Stefan Gonick wrote: > >> My guess is that they stopped working on replacing the licensed code >> so that the situation hasn't changed much since the last message. > > > So they could figure out what the cost per license is for the licensed > code, and charge that amount plus 10% forward it on to the licensor > and be done. Not open source but last official release never to be > updated. If it was reasonable and ran on our current systems it would > be worth paying some money for. I keep a last version Titanium > Powerbook around just to run old OS9 software that doesn't like > classic. > > The above would cure all the issues except for support which they > could charge for or someone on this list could charge for. > > Thanks, > > M./ > > Michael Heth > [email protected] > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
