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Vincent
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You guys made this open-source, and free to use. I'm sure many people would donate to help keep you guys going.
Well to be fair, I'm also a student and I've also bought a vB license. I'll probably buy a license here too, just because it's great software. But it does take a bit of trouble with prices of >200 dollar, because to me, that's still a lot of money. So I can get the whole 'please don't make it too expansive' thing some people tend to have, because not everybody is making thousands of dollars each month with their website so they can easily afford it.I would suspect the person asking is still a student... You remember those days, don't you? If everyone just did what they liked to do we wouldn't need money at all.
Plus most big software makers offer big discounts to students.
I think anything under $100 is too little.I think anything over $100 is too much.
Vincent said:I think anything over $100 is too much.
I think $100 is just rightI think anything under $100 is too little.
nuh...This software is already worth more than $100. Sorry.
Definitely nuh... not until they add CMS, Blogs, Image Gallery and a GPRS feature which will show me my current position on a real time satellite map.The price should be between 150-200.
I still say $249.
Maybe I wasnt clear in how I worded it. XF currently has less features than vb and IPB and therefore I would price XF below vb. And I read that an early adopters discount is going to be applied.
Once XF has a similar feature set as IPB and vb, it I would set the price slightly higher than the others.
I do not think that is really fair to anyone. There is a lot of free software that is fantastic, discounting something that is free is silly just because it is free. Thats like judging someone on the color of their fur!
Just because something is open source does not mean that it is free. It's free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
Umm... no... if it truly is "open source" then it is free... "Viewable Source" (like XF and VB are not free).
Not necessarily. Open source software such as Linux can be packaged and sold commercially, such is the case with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, for example. Open source really means that the source code can't be patented, basically. While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sold commercially, any changes made to the kernel must still be made available to everyone.Umm... no... if it truly is "open source" then it is free... "Viewable Source" (like XF and VB are not free).
No, "open source" has nothing to do with whether the software is free (as in, you don't have to pay for it) or not. There are other reasons one could argue that software, such as XenForo, are not open source, but the fact it costs money is not one of those reasons.
I contribute to a few open source projects, and usually favor open source software when making choices on what software to run, but I'll also gladly donate to, or purchase licenses of, quality projects. If what we have here now is any indication of what's to come, I fully expect to be purchasing a XenForo license in the future.
Open Source1. Free Redistribution
The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
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The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.
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