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Author: jonhall
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:27842#140403
#5...I'd be happy to contribute to a worthwhile project., but I dont
have enough time (or project management experience) to dedicate to
managing a project. Almost all of the successful open source projects
have some kind of corporate sponsorship, even if the original source
was developed for a specific business reason, then open sourced, or a
corporation wants to take advantage of the free labor. FarCry,
Mozilla, Linux, OpenOffice, MySQL, etc., all have corporations backing
them in one way or another to help manage the direction of the
project. Who in the CF world has the motivation to invest the
resources necessary?
Another barrier is that CF itself is closed source, and developers
have no clear cut guarantee that the platform will exist in the
future. Unlike with PHP where developers know it will exist, or .Net
where developers know MS isn't going anywhere.
--
mailto:jonhall@ozline.net
Saturday, October 11, 2003, 1:55:14 PM, you wrote:
JD> [I know that this may be considered off-topic - but then again it may be
JD> considered on-topic. Anyway, it's the weekend and traffic is light...]
JD> My last post on this subject got me to thinking: why isn't there more CF
JD> Open source? How do you guys approach the topic:
JD> 1) I won't place my code in OpenSource, it's mine and I should be paid
JD> for it! Open-source is for hippies.
JD> 2) I might consider it, but all of my best stuff was written for clients
JD> and they own it.
JD> 3) I rarely do anything big or important enough to consider a release.
JD> 4) Almost everything I do is very specific to my (or my client's)
JD> business.
JD> 5) I would like to, but I don't have the time to manage a project.
JD> 6) I keep meaning too, but I never seem to find the time to convert my
JD> client-specific stuff to a generic version and write docs.
JD> 7) I already open source (or at least make available unencrypted copies
JD> of) at least some things. (This would include submitting unencrypted
JD> files to the developer's exchange)
JD> 8) Everything is open-sourced! The GPL adorns every file that leaves my
JD> workstation!
JD> 9) Something else?
JD> In general I find that most of time I fall in (6) and (7). There's a
JD> lot I would like to make available, but very little time to "package" it
JD> for public consumption. This is also why all of my "releases" have been
JD> small (custom tags, specific techniques, etc) - I may be proud of the
JD> big stuff but I just can't find the time put it in a nice wrapper.
JD> CF has hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of small things (tags, UDFs,
JD> CFCs, sample apps, etc) but VERY few large, full-featured apps available
JD> (although, oddly, we do have at least ten or so open app frameworks).
JD> Why don't we have many full-featured (and open) forums, CMSs, Blogs,
JD> Security systems, inventory managers, shopping carts, and so on? We do
JD> have a LOT of parts for them - just very few complete ones.
JD> Why is that?
JD> Jim Davis
JD>
Author: Angel Stewart
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:27842#140389
How about setting up a little poll somewhere?
Maybe even an Opensource one ^_^
hee hee
-Gel
My last post on this subject got me to thinking: why isn't there more CF
Open source? How do you guys approach the topic:
1) I won't place my code in OpenSource, it's mine and I should be paid
for it! Open-source is for hippies.
2) I might consider it, but all of my best stuff was written for clients
and they own it.
3) I rarely do anything big or important enough to consider a release.
4) Almost everything I do is very specific to my (or my client's)
business.
5) I would like to, but I don't have the time to manage a project.
6) I keep meaning too, but I never seem to find the time to convert my
client-specific stuff to a generic version and write docs.
7) I already open source (or at least make available unencrypted copies
of) at least some things. (This would include submitting unencrypted
files to the developer's exchange)
8) Everything is open-sourced! The GPL adorns every file that leaves my
workstation!
9) Something else?
Author: Bryan Stevenson
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:27842#140378
Hey Jim,
I'd say I mainly fall into the "not enough time" camp, but I also do mainly
custom applications for clients (so alot of what I do is not really geared for
mass use as it's so specific).
HTH
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
t. 250.920.8830
e. bryan@electricedgesystems.com
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Macromedia Associate Partner
www.macromedia.com
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Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group
Founder & Director
www.cfug-vancouverisland.com
[I know that this may be considered off-topic - but then again it may be
considered on-topic. Anyway, it's the weekend and traffic is light...]
My last post on this subject got me to thinking: why isn't there more CF
Open source? How do you guys approach the topic:
1) I won't place my code in OpenSource, it's mine and I should be paid
for it! Open-source is for hippies.
2) I might consider it, but all of my best stuff was written for clients
and they own it.
3) I rarely do anything big or important enough to consider a release.
4) Almost everything I do is very specific to my (or my client's)
business.
5) I would like to, but I don't have the time to manage a project.
6) I keep meaning too, but I never seem to find the time to convert my
client-specific stuff to a generic version and write docs.
7) I already open source (or at least make available unencrypted copies
of) at least some things. (This would include submitting unencrypted
files to the developer's exchange)
8) Everything is open-sourced! The GPL adorns every file that leaves my
workstation!
9) Something else?
In general I find that most of time I fall in (6) and (7). There's a
lot I would like to make available, but very little time to "package" it
for public consumption. This is also why all of my "releases" have been
small (custom tags, specific techniques, etc) - I may be proud of the
big stuff but I just can't find the time put it in a nice wrapper.
CF has hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of small things (tags, UDFs,
CFCs, sample apps, etc) but VERY few large, full-featured apps available
(although, oddly, we do have at least ten or so open app frameworks).
Why don't we have many full-featured (and open) forums, CMSs, Blogs,
Security systems, inventory managers, shopping carts, and so on? We do
have a LOT of parts for them - just very few complete ones.
Why is that?
Jim Davis
Author: Jim Davis
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:27842#140376
[I know that this may be considered off-topic - but then again it may be
considered on-topic. Anyway, it's the weekend and traffic is light...]
My last post on this subject got me to thinking: why isn't there more CF
Open source? How do you guys approach the topic:
1) I won't place my code in OpenSource, it's mine and I should be paid
for it! Open-source is for hippies.
2) I might consider it, but all of my best stuff was written for clients
and they own it.
3) I rarely do anything big or important enough to consider a release.
4) Almost everything I do is very specific to my (or my client's)
business.
5) I would like to, but I don't have the time to manage a project.
6) I keep meaning too, but I never seem to find the time to convert my
client-specific stuff to a generic version and write docs.
7) I already open source (or at least make available unencrypted copies
of) at least some things. (This would include submitting unencrypted
files to the developer's exchange)
8) Everything is open-sourced! The GPL adorns every file that leaves my
workstation!
9) Something else?
In general I find that most of time I fall in (6) and (7). There's a
lot I would like to make available, but very little time to "package" it
for public consumption. This is also why all of my "releases" have been
small (custom tags, specific techniques, etc) - I may be proud of the
big stuff but I just can't find the time put it in a nice wrapper.
CF has hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of small things (tags, UDFs,
CFCs, sample apps, etc) but VERY few large, full-featured apps available
(although, oddly, we do have at least ten or so open app frameworks).
Why don't we have many full-featured (and open) forums, CMSs, Blogs,
Security systems, inventory managers, shopping carts, and so on? We do
have a LOT of parts for them - just very few complete ones.
Why is that?
Jim Davis
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