YouTube Plugin

jeffason wrote:

what exactly are you wanting?

With the creative tab, people can post the you tube text, and it ~should~ work.

The new Version of CB does not support this anymore, anybody have a work around?

I'm currently working on this. Will release in about 3 weeks or less

I see that this little idea of mine is catching up fast. Should I ask for Royalty Fee now?

Here is a new commercial version selling for $30.00 (a bit too steep, isn't it?). This is a plugin/component combo:

mike.simbunch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16

I am sure someone can come up with a free or cheaper version to help out the masses who use CB but can not afford such high cost. I am sort of getting the feeling that with ever-growing number of commercial Joomla! plugins priced at above $30.00, soon it will be too expensive for most of us to affectively manage our websites based on the "FREE" Joomla! CMS.

I personally have nothing against financially supporting hard working developers and do it very often by clicking the donation button or buying the reasoanably priced ($10.00 to $20.00) plugins without hesitation, but come on! Please keep the prices at a more affordable level consistent with the "Free" nature of the opensource CMS so we won't slow-down the current fast-paced growth of the Joomla! itself.

Keep up the good work.

JD

Post edited by: joomladude, at: 2006/12/29 21:31

Joomladude wrote:

Is there a plugin which will allow members to stream YouTube videos to their profiles.

1. Don't look at me, I am not as good in coding as I am in "demanding".

2. Streaming a YouTube video can save $$$ at very busy site on bandwidth and storage costs.

3. In some point my website has to be able to compete with myspace.com

4. I am a big fan of the Opensource mevement and will definitely click the "Donate" button on your site (If any!).

Joomladude, you made this request—and the request was filled by a capable developer. I've tried the product out, it's good.

Buying the occasional component or plugin and having to pay some dough is par for the course, I think. It ensures that developers are able to continue doing what they are good at doing.

Open Source means free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in beer. I think its great that you donate (I have in the past and will continue to donate to Joomlapolis--not huge amounts but here and there -- certainly on par with what I have paid for other components).

If one thing is to be said though (and I think Nant brought this up in another thread) we can all appreciate CB that much more when compared with the cost of commercial components.

I don't say this to flame, but we could all take the money we save in bandwidth streaming video with this component and give a little back to the developer who took the time to code it (30 bux). It ensures continued development and more neat products. That being said, we should all throw a little donation into the CB pot, myself included!

Anyway, I say this in the spirit of debate -- and not to offend anyone!

dsendecki wrote:

Open Source means free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in beer.

Couldn't have said it any better myself
To answer some of Joomladude's concerns, basically I am a software developer-cum-student by profession. I have my own web-based company that deals with online advertising, and believe me, you cannot get a software (any software) built specially for your site for just 50 or 30 bucks.

However, as dsendecki pointed out, open source is about freedom. Therefore I released my projects (which was made not for my site but for the needs of a community) at a cost which I think is very low. Open source isn't about free software. www.gnu.org has a pretty decent definiation of what it means, although as a commercial software, i do not allow Freedom 2 & 3! :P

Buying a commercial product also means getting decent after-sales support for it, which I myself emphasize on personally. This is one of the main reason why most people will pay for a product that is useful to them.

Regarding the worry of slowing down the opensource community, I've received many (and I really mean many) enquiries from non-CB users who wish to convert to CB because they need the functionalities of my plugins, so I think some good is coming from that

It is regrettable, of course, that a commercial product will generally be unavailable to the masses, but I simply do not have the time to "support" the masses, and I prefer that only serious users, with adequate and sufficient experience in Joomla to want to pay for Joomla-based software, use my projects. I find that I get more constructive feedbacks and more understanding users this way

Anyway, these are more of my opinions in the open source industry in which I've been using/paying/donating/developing for a while, and not really in response to Joomladude's post lol. However I thank you for your interest in my plugin

Kind regards, Mike

I am not sure if you guys are following what I am trying to say here, but anyways, I appreciate the replies.

If you guys take a moment and read some of my other postings on this forum, you will understand that I am not talking about NOT supporting the opensource movement, financially and perfectly understand what the word "free" in opensource movement means.

I for one have donated to CB as well as have paid "reasonable" fee for some of the plugins I have found on this forum Such as StarSign by DJ and have also happily paid $119.00 for HotPropery by Mosets and will continue doing so, as much as I can afford.

However, I don't see it right that some plugins written solely to enhance the performance of the great components like CB which is available free of charge to anyone to download and use, can cost way out of proportion.

One disadvantage of such pricing strategies could be distracting the users from supporting the main developer of the original components such as CB or even the Joomla! itself. I don't want to argue about the validity of this concern, as I am not sure anyone at this moment can produce real numbers to affectively back or defeat this argument, nevertheless, it could be a source of concern for those developers down the road.

My main suggestion is that if someone is writing a plugin which only enhances certain functions of an existing great component such as CB, they should consider pricing it more reasonably just like many of the plugin developers on this site do.

However, if they are releasing a stand-alone component which adds new functionality to Joomla! such as CB, HP, Virtuemart,... they should be free to price their component as high or as low as they wish to, or just make it available free of charge to everyone.

With all respect, I am truly not interested in making this thread a long chain of arguments about the right of developers to price their work for as much as they like, as I have no objection to that idea. But I also will feel free to add a related follow up to this link just as I did while including my own comments.

Keep up the good work.

JD

Post edited by: joomladude, at: 2006/12/30 06:17