Why not open source?

[Telebrett]

Why, if the program is completly free, not release it as an open source project, therefore enabling the community to fix any bugs they find?

Just mildly curious.

[Dynasty]

It could be that the people don't want some of their code to be stolen by others or something, just because something is free doesn't mean it has to be open source.

[Josh]

It's free but it's still have rights.
open soure or not depends on them.

[joey]

1st Page 2000 could never be open source for the following reasons:

1) it uses commercial 3rd party software components that are subject license restrictions -- in other words EvrSoft cannot distribute source code that they dont own.

2) someone could simply recompile the program's source and put their own name on it, claiming they wrote it...

... and on the subject of taking credit for someone else's work...

3) 1st Page 2000 was built right on top of a code editor example written by another programmer (basically #2 above) -- EvrSoft took someone else's code example, added a few dialogs to insert HTML tags and all of a sudden it was © EvrSoft -- so much for "innovation". :(

Here is the original [core program] of 1st Page 2000 for anyone interested:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010607200707/http://www.dbrocksoftware.com/synmemo/Files/DemoA.zip

[Dynasty]

I'm sorry but while I see a resemblence between that and 1st page, the resemblence is no closer than the fact they both use tabbed file thingys, 1st page is completely different to that. Or at least that is how I see it.

[joey]

I'm sorry but while I see a resemblence between that and 1st page

Basically, my point is:

The innerworkings/source code are both the same (a reason why you'll never see an open source 1st Page 2000)

But again, few people outside EvrSoft would actually know this.



Cheers

[GrimReaper]

Joey,

How did you know it was made off of david brocks original example source code? did you write some of the software?

[joey]

GrimReaper wrote in message: (http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135)

How did you know it was made off of david brocks original example source code?
I'd rather not get into that part. :D

But the really sad thing here, is that many bugs in 1st Page 2000 could have been avoided if only a little effort was made to look through the example source code.

Like the infamous word-wrap bug (everyone should know what i'm talking about :rolleyes: ) could have been avoided by simply checking to see if WordWrap was turned on before changing documents (and/or syntax parsers).

Instead, code was cut/pasted from the demo app (http://web.archive.org/web/20010607200707/http://www.dbrocksoftware.com/synmemo/Files/DemoA.zip) leaving users [still] waiting 3+ years for a bugfix that would take a whole 5-10 minutes of coding.

Stay tuned to see whose code makes it into the next version!
:eek:


Cheers

[Ghandi Eximius]

FP is AOK just so long as its free....thats my 2 cents

[nilo.teixeira]

What about the phones, do they link to Domino´s ;-P ??
I´m in Brasil, I use 1st Page 2000 for about 2 years for PHP and ASP development.
I have experience in Delphi and I hate the Ctrl+End, Ctrl+Home mapping...... OPEN SOURCE it !

And if they don´t release the source, couldn´t we find a dedicated cracker to reverse engineer the software and fix this issue ?

Let´s keep this software up... or I´m flirting with Homesite !

Nilo