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Why don't you offer eValid as an "open-source" project?

Postby keitv » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:45 pm

Why don't you offer eValid as an "open-source" project?
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Re: Why don't you offer eValid as an "open-source" project?

Postby eValid » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:37 am

keitv wrote:Why don't you offer eValid as an "open-source" project?

There are many things that an "open-source" solution offers and for certain kinds of software systems that development approach seems to be ideal. For example, look at the excellent graphical editor GIMP, and the historically important GNU C++ compiler. Both are very widely used products -- tools really -- for which the technical specifications and performance criteria are not in doubt.

But open-source development projects suffer a lot from characteristics like: lack of technical support except by experts, the need to "roll your own" most of the time, architectural direction dominated by one (or a very few) individuals, no set delivery or completion schedule, etc.

If you are actually trying to get a specific project done -- a specific piece of work on a specific schedule against a specific budget -- the story is quite different.

In that case, a commercially developed product, supported by a real company, professional technical staff to answer questions, and guarantees that problems will be addressed in a timely manner -- all of these point toward a commercial product.

But so often we hear "...but open source is free," and that may be right but the overall cost including your own time and effort in most cases means that adopting an open-source solution in a real-world project costs MORE rather than less.

eValid is intended for use by small and medium, highly focused web development, QA, testing and performance teams and has been highly successful in that role. But, sorry, no, it's not an "open-source" product, because all of that development and support is "not free".

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