@Cathal - that's somewhat disingenuous. The complaint is over formerly commercially available modules where DNN Corp purchased the original source code and took them private.

There are a few of them, they were very popular ones, and DNN Corp holds all the cards.

No wonder people find it hard to trust the Corp.

---

Best wishes,
- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk

 sorry that's not correct - Sebastian said from the framework package which means the modules that were separated out into open-source projects - he isn't referring to commercial products which were acquired (and in some cases had functionality added to the platform)

Whilst there's an argument to be said for the convenience of having these modules shipped with the platform there were many disadvantages (some covered in Joe's blog). In addition the fact is that many had not had updates in months/years (some like maps or cardspace have been updated since 2008), some were automatically installed and later turned out to have security issues (which affected people who may not even have ever used them), and some even stopped working when the asp.net framework version changed (breaking upgrades).

---

Buy the new Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform book Amazon US