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[thinkcomp]

Hi,

Just thought people might like to know that we've opened the source for our PHP framework, Lampshade:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corpora...ses.html?id=24

It makes form error checking, user authentication, and other common tasks in PHP a lot easier. Feel free to download and try it out.

Aaron

[thefallen]

Sounds cool, ill check it out and let you know what i think!

[TDMWeb]

Aaron: I think what you have really done is made a free version available for personal use, in the hope of making more sales of the commercial version, which is not quite the same as making it "open source".

You are quite entitled to charge for your software,of course, but calling it "open source" is IMHO misleading.

[thinkcomp]

Hi,

I can appreciate your point that the term "open source" can be confusing, but given that there are 58 different open source licenses approved by the OSI (and that doesn't include licenses that are used for practical applications such as MySQL and BerkeleyDB), I don't really think it's fair to say that we're misleading people. It's inherently a poorly-defined term.

There was already a free version of Lampshade for personal use before, but the source was closed. Now, it's open, which is why we're calling it open source. We're not the first company to ask people to pay for commercial use, and I doubt we'll be the last.

Hope this clears things up.

Aaron