etegration said:
Where's the spirit of opensource nowadays?
The spirit of Open Source is alive and well. But ...
I believe most of us are running some *nix server and using DA but anything more that DA provides are charable nowadays, from skins to add ons, however i do agree that it adds value/ make the skin or third party apps developers come out with even better apps etc and frees up time for DA's developers to concentrate on DA but i just feel openess is dying...not by this incident alone but some other stuffs i encountered in my course of work.
So are you saying you're willing to pay for DA itself, but not for any aftermarket products?
If so, then I'd say DA works fine by itself, so don't bother with the aftermarket products. Either do without the functionality or create your own solutions.
As for us, we're primarily in the support and aftermarket product business; only 10% of our income is from hosting.
If we gave away everything we did, we wouldn't do anything.
That said, we obey the letter and the spirit of the Open Source license on every product we create.
May i suggest that maybe, making some skins free while others chargable but never compromise on quality.
You're entitled to provide as much free stuff as you want. After you've created a few products perhaps you'll see the value of the creation process.
For example, we offer a free version of our exim.conf file, implmenting SpamBlocker, and you're certainly able to modify it for your own use, but if you give your modified version to anyone else, you can't prevent them from passing it on.
You can certainly do the same.
Jeff