> From: Robert Ganowski > Please let me envisage that I'm pretty much disappointed.
Why shouldn't Hussein and pixware make a living making their great software, especially from other businesses who presumably also charge their customers? (Don't forget, there is still the free Personal Edition.) In my opinion, for-profit companies and open-source can have a healthy symbiotic relationship, and this is a very good example. Michael Kaye's Saxon is another, similar example. Where would we be without them? Open standards (XML, XSL, etc.) and dialects (DocBook, DITA, etc.) absolutely rule in the publishing world, but so far I haven't seen any open source XML editors as good as the best commercial ones (which include XML Mind). So XML Mind is not and never has been open source, but it supports and extends open standards and tools. In my opinion that's how commercial tools should work. So I think $220 is a bargain. - Denis
