Still, unfortunate and highly unprofessional behavior on a public apache list.
On 3. mai 2013, at 16:34, Reza <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember, they did execute a DCMA takedown on the OpenDDR project last year. > In was meritless and likely meant to clear the playing field of any > alternative options. > > > ________________________________ > From: Serban Ghita <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:15 AM > Subject: Re: In the news > > > > 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
