+1000 to Martijn's comment. I've released a few open source components - and none are at the level to be sold. Not because they can't be used - I do use them in production. But because there are a million use cases and I have no desire, time, or monetary reason to accommodate those use cases. Instead, if people contact me, I will either build them a custom component for hire or will allow them to pay me to add features to an open source one.
-- Jeremy Thomerson http://www.wickettraining.com On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com > wrote: > The problem with pre built components is that they never, ever are > exactly what you want or need. Maintaining such components for other > people is what I call hell. We are in the business of creating the > best Java web framework for building your own custom components with > unprecedented ease. This takes enough time already. > > Anybody is welcome to build component libraries, open source or > commercially. Our license allows for that and nobody would object to > creative folks trying to earn a buck or two with their component > (libraries). > > That this hasn't happened (yet) is mostly because it is so damned easy > to create your own custom components according to your coding style > that precisely fit in your application and perform exactly those task > you intend them to. And conversely it is damned hard to create a > finished, polished, released component. It is easy to start a > component, but it is *work* to ship it. > > Martijn >
