Hi, I never actually argued whether this is open source or not. My simple point is, but I see it is not so simple for some, was strictly on the philosophical level of open source itself and that some companies release software under a open source label but crippled.
But, I let it rest now and concentrate on some good coding with some good open source products :-) Kind Regards, Nitai On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:59 AM, marcel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Nitai never actually used their "Full Product" as the free version has > everything that > coldfusion offered and more. Or am I missing some must have feature > that is in the Full version. > > I was actually quiet pleased when I found their proprietary free > version. > > -> Permission to use on commercial web-sites. > -> No badging on there part. > -> Rich set of features, for a free version. > > Now that they open sourced the code I thought it would greatly > simplify having nice charts in open bluedragon. > > In my opinion a company releasing source code is never a bad thing, I > am sure they have monetary reasons for > their decision, but so what. > > > > > > > > > > > On Sep 14, 2:21 pm, "Nitai @ Razuna" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hold on here! OpenBD is NOT a crippled down product or anything alike, > > distributed under a open source license! > > Whereas, the FusionChart one brings their "FREE" product as open source, > > their "PAID" product features much more and is not being open sourced. > Thus > > if you really want to have the full power of their product you have > nothing > > else then to get their "Paid" product ( > http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/Comparison.asp). > > > > I was referring to this difference. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Hugo Ahlenius <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > | Yes, just keep in mind, that their "open source" variant is a > crippled > > > | down solution. I'm always surprised that companies use the "open > source" > > > | label just bring out their otherwise "free" product relabeled as open > > > | source. > > > > > I don't really see a big problem with that - and also keep in mind > that's > > > where OpenBD comes from... :) > > > > > Cheers, > > > Hugo > > > > -- > > Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solutionhttp:// > www.razuna.com/ > > > > Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Managementhttp://www.razuna.org/ > > > > Follow us on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/sixsigns > > > -- Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/sixsigns --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
