Wow Switch, I can't say how much I appreciate that
Many people in the opensource community relate "opensource" to "freeware" for some reason, but that is plain wrong. I read a post about developing commercial components for Joomla somewhere in Joomla's forums, and a developer mentioned that Joomla's community is just too "spoilt". I have to say I can't agree more.
To suggest that "everyone who makes money based on providing products/services for an opensource project would systematically put a part of it back into the core projects" is just ludicrous. It does not make open source stronger. It discourages people from picking up the core project in the first place. No Joomla commercial component developer donates a fixed percent of his earnings to Joomla. No Unix admin donates a part of his salary to Unix. No PHP programmer pays a percent of his earnings to php.net. No MySQL DBA does the same either. There are countless opensource and free projects out there - *countless* - and to expect all commercial products that involve these free projects to donate a part of their earnings back to the core projects will totally defeat the whole meaning of "open source".
My projects are not just plain CB plugins. They serve a purpose, depending on which plugin. The purpose they serve is the resultant intellectual product of my work. CB is the platform on which these purposes lie on. The same goes for Beat's subscription plugin, which is the intellectual product of his work. It's just like Joomla is a software that provides a CMS solution, resting on the PHP "platform". Do you expect the Joomla team to return a part of their donations to PHP.net every month, since we can safely argue that Joomla "merely" enhances the capability of PHP?
Anyway, just my 2 cents
-edit- The price of the Sandbox plugin is $35 actually
Post edited by: p9939068, at: 2007/01/23 08:45