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This seems disingenuous. While it certainly sucks that something which was once completely free to you now costs money or comes with several strings attached, i
by boucher 16y ago
This seems disingenuous. While it certainly sucks that something which was once completely free to you now costs money or comes with several strings attached, it's hardly unfair or dishonest. What you had for free continues to be free, forever. That's the nature of open source. You could fork that code base and continue to improve it, or start your own project around it.
Sencha decided they couldn't build a sustainable business by continuing to not charge people for their hard work, a reasonable and dare I say responsible decision. People who are making money off their work now have the choice to financially support that work, rather than simply seeing it die completely, which is what would have otherwise happened.
- jonpaul 16y agoWhile the point you make is true, the parent is correct. Beware of this company if you use their GXT product. They continually treat their GXT CUSTOMERS poorly.
- huherto 16y agoWe couldn't fork; it turns out that mygwt was not really LGPL as it was originally stated. We couldn't even use the old versions. http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/2918164133ac9b2e http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr... It is not about the money. It is about changing the license after you've made a big commitment.