We are not in talks with anyone to sell the DA project.
If somebody claims otherwise, I welcome them to post proof. As for wanting a guarantee that prices never increase... that is extremely irrational.
I challenge anyone to look at their credit/debit card or bank statements, maybe the last 10-20 places you made a purchase. Go to their websites. Show me where any of them promise that prices will
never go up.
While irrational people are busy with that exercise, let me address the rational people.
Of course, you realize prices go up over time but you expect it to be done fairly and reasonably. And this is where our track-record comes in.
We consider subscriptions locked in. While
this isn't a guarantee, there are customers that have had the same DirectAdmin license for 18 years without any price increase. No matter how hard you look, you will never find a DA customer who has received a forced price-increase on an active product/subscription. Compare this to our competitor who has done a major price increase, then yearly price increases after that. Yet, somehow we are still the bad guy.
Furthermore, we even have a solution for those who demand a legal/contractual guarantee that price will never go up. Since our beginnings, we have never restricted how far you can extend the expiry of a license . If you want a
guaranteed 100 year price, you can do it!
If that's not enough, please remember that in the last few years we brought on
@smtalk as an official owner/partner of DA -- many of you will remember him as being part of our community since near the beginning, and he is now the leading force behind our development and features. When it comes to ownership stakes, we focus on contributors who have become our trusted friends -- not investors or venture capitalists. In fact, if our intent was to sell out, bringing on another owner (with veto powers) would be the last thing we'd do.
We're the same group of people who started this company and we've had to make some adjustments to be sustainable, but none of these adjustments have ever involved breaking a promise.