Fancy user and tiny contributor of October and now Winter. I've been really disappointed when I hear the split of the project, then I finally understand both d

Fancy user and tiny contributor of October and now Winter. I've been really disappointed when I hear the split of the project, then I finally understand both decisions here: - October became paid to generate more money than only fees from the marketplace - Winter will keep the project open source and hope that the marketplace and donations will be sufficient to make the project live long. What's made me decide on which side I wanted to be was not the fact that the platform is paid or free, but more the fact that only one project will now consider their customers as developers and potential contributors. On the October's side, you'll now just pay for a program that you'll run on your server as is, you could still develop custom plugins but the new features will now only be developed by the two creators (including one that I've never had the chance to discuss with or even read in two years of contributions). You now just can propose new features and hope that the developers will agree to develop them without any due date. On the Winter's side there are 4 friendly developers, a world-wide active community and they've always been open to any contributions, including new features. The maintainers are focused on adding new features meanwhile asking for beginners' feedbacks to ease the introduction of new community members (and potential future contributors). My thoughts is that October as of today is one step higher of Winter because they released a new fresh backend with some new (only front-end) features secretly developed by the creators without even telling it to the maintainers but Winter is already way more active into the development of new features due to the fact they can be added by anyone from the community. I expect both project to live but the community of both projects will now include different kind of members, October's one will be full of customers, Winter's one will be full of contributors.