Hello-hello, I don't see a real reason on ranting about WURFL and the people behind the current business that is. >From what I know it was free and open source licensed until one point that they changed the license to a more restrictive one and turned the API into a business. I'm guessing that was more of a business decision to monetize the amount of work that they put in the project. Whatever!
Serban On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Carlos, > > Glad you have the similar opinions on WURFL and some of the people behind > it (as you're not bothering to look him up[?]) Their code is unlikely to > be "scalable" or "optimized" now either, except they hope to rip-off people > who are naive or rich enough to afford 20-50k(!) $ per year annual data > providing fees now with the same non-optimized services. > > Those in the community they also tried to rip-off or at least disappointed > are looking for alternatives, which is a main reason we are trying to get > more scalable, yet affordable solutions than their unreasonable offerings > for a broader community. > > If you plan to educate MobFox about alternatives like DeviceMap or > OpenDDR, feel free to do so. They might also appreciate, many just lack > proper knowledge about better alternatives. > > Regards, > Werner > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Carlos D'Agostino < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Heh, Werner I can see you have strong opinions on WURFL and the "italian >> dumbass" (I think his name was Luca Passiani -- I'm not even bothering to >> look it up). I don't know the status of WURLF currently, but back in 2010 >> (I think) their code was certainly not "scalable", or "optimized", or >> <insert web jargon to produce marketing orgasms>. The data was quite >> extensive however, and for people operating in markets that don't carry >> modern handsets (like South Africa and Kenya.. and those "people" include >> yours truly), it was pretty neat. >> >> I've notified my marketeers about MobFox, perhaps we do some business >> with them, and put that article to the test :) >> >> Regards, >> >> >> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> The only aspect that is indeed somewhat interesting is MobFox also has >>> some REST API: >>> http://dev.mobfox.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#MobFox_REST_API >>> >>> Beside other legacy stuff like WAP or WURFL[?] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Carlos D'Agostino. >> > > -- Serban Ghita http://ro.linkedin.com/in/serbanghita http://ghita.org | http://mobiledetect.net
