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PHPnuke, PostNuke, Xoops, and all the other *Nuke flavours weren't that bad years ago : they simply got the job done. problem is, due to their archaic architecture and design, they were pretty limited, and full of bugs and severe security issues. yet, don't think for a nanosecond that joomla is so m...

besides, what about people who isn't php-savvy like us ? I am completely confused. How do you plan to build that backend component if you have no PHP skills? Why are you are complaining about the GPL being bad for the world because it's offered freely, then asking for more free stuff? Your posts ar...

switching to another CMS ? dont worry, i'm already moving to Drupal for some projects. besides, i wasn't criticizing Joomla, but the GPL licence in general and his supporters who in many cases live in a detached reality where money grows on trees and bills get paid by themselves. because of GPL, com...

Ahhhh, it's Spanish! Fore some reason I didn't recognise it... obviously a senior moment :p All makes sense now, I thought it would be a bit odd to try and sell it when it would be so easy to find it for free. I did wander if it was a service oriented product, but not being able to read the text me...

Dreadnought - There are solutions to each challenge our community faces and those challenges are met as *we* step up and meet them. Please consider actioning your good ideas with your time. Please volunteer and help make Joomla! great! sorry but i completely disagree : 1) not all of us have time to...

i've the same issue with 1.5 too many addons either dont work as supposed or have random issues or just dont work at all. therefore i'm stuck with 1.0.xx but let me tell you i'm not happy of the situation, and joomla 1.5 is not promising very well judging by the commercial coders' "revolt" against t...

i agree 100% with Horus_68 : bring us more categories and more segmentation. how can i find what i need in the "content management" section with more than 160 items for instance ?? that's insane. max should be 30-40 per category, otherwise divide and conquer. for tools i don't know, no problem for m...

Agenda : honestly i can't grasp this whole discussion. why a coder who spent lots of time and efforts should not sell his work ? what's wrong with commercial addons ? or shareware ? joomla may be GPL but this doesnt mean we must write GPL, as we coders are the sole OWNERS of our work and i really wa...

it's up to the developer : if you want to make a living coding addons then in one way or another you must have a steady business model. cheapest one is giving away your addon as freeware or freeware AND gnu/gpl getting few bucks back via advertising in your home page. it looks cheap but you make 100...

back to the topic : 1) IRCmaxell : well it is GPL and open source, no questions, but asking 10$ to remove links or ads is what i call "ad-ware" as in "advertised software" but anyway, the offending string can be removed in 3 seconds, it's not a big deal. 2) Jambook : i'm very happy to hear that he r...

As you know there are a number of outstanding issues regarding extensions with non-GPL compatible licenses and Joomla (a discussion of this is not appropriate in this thread IMHO). Besides this isuues, in the case of JCal Pro, the codebase upon which it is built is GPL. I could not change the licen...

Dear LorenzoG, I'm deeply impressed by the fast response and the quick action you took for this case. The other thread of mine was closed but let me tell you here and to all the other devs that nowhere else and with no other cms i ever encountered such professional and problem-solving attitude. My s...

donations/etc : i personally never believed in this stuff as a serious and steady business model. there are many commercial addons for joomla, some of them pretty expensive. if they can do it, you can do it. why wasting time with hidden fees or donations ? ask the money ! there's plenty of users who...

Thanks for the modification and clarification. And it's been a while since i submitted an extension, I forgot there was "Donation / Subscription" license option. my 2 cents ? why don't you just go commercial ? with 20-30$/months you can get a simple turnkey e-biz solution, see Yahoo SMB and similar...

AD-Ware components/modules/mambots i found so far and was forced to patch : 1) IRCMaxell Cache : --> it prints a string with "Powered by xxx" and "Generated in xxx seconds" at the bottom of your html. Despite the addons is open source and yadda yadda he asks for a 10$ donation to remove his copyrigh...