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1/31/2014 12:37 PM
 
Tony Henrich


Joined: 12/15/2008
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"If you can't afford to pay thousands of dollars a year for Evoq Social, you certainly cannot afford to pay 50 bucks for it either".
This doesn't make sense for individuals or small companies. I can't afford $1000's but certainly I can afford $50.

For #3: if you make enough money to pay all the employees and make some profit, you don't need investor. Just like a typical store or restaurant. The wheels are spinning.

Is DNN proprietary software? Why?
 
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1/31/2014 12:39 PM
 
Tony Henrich


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Sebastian Leupold wrote:
Tony Henrich wrote:

Anyone remembers Community Server software? It used to be open source. Then Telligent offered a commercial version while keeping a free community version. Then the community version went away then it was renamed Telligent Community. Telligent is now Zimbra and things have changed a lot.



I hope DNN doesn't have a similar story in the future. A company acquires DNNSoftware and decides to make it commercial only.

 Tony,

I am not afraid, because there is one important difference: the license  used by DNN, which provides us with many options.

I.e., if necessary, we will be able to continue with the product, whatever happens - we might not be allowed to call it DNN, but we'll be able to maintain the platform and continue improving it - integrating new features and new use cases.

And as far as I know the professional community in Europe, I have no doubt that we will able to organize it, i.e. you should feel safe using it!

 

 

Are you saying there's an upcoming movement to fork DNN?

 
 
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1/31/2014 12:44 PM
 
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Tony Henrich wrote:

Are you saying there's an upcoming movement to fork DNN?

I am not aware of any concrete activities in this direction, but the software is for sure worth to be a base for other products as well.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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1/31/2014 12:51 PM
 
Chris Onyak


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Tony has a point.   You have full access to the source code so you are never at risk.  Even Evoq provides the source code.  

If DNN was bought out, this community is still very strong with a lot of extremely talented people from all over the world that are willing to step and move on if needed.   A fork? I don't think that would be a good idea until DNN Corp. itself stops investing in the DNN Open Source and I think they know that would be devastating to them.

The only real issue here is the site changes here no longer promote the DNN Open Source so it is no longer a central location for us all to collaborate.   It is also a breaking point for growing the community.

The issue is not DNN, the problem is that the open source community no longer feels welcome here.

DNN isn't going anywhere.  We all have the source and there are masses of people all over the world investing in the DNN Open Source.  So there is no risk and it is and will always be the best on the Microsoft platform until the next major technology change.

It's just a matter of what site the open source community visits to chat and expand DNN.


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1/31/2014 12:56 PM
 
Tony Henrich


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The free open source edition is evolving and getting constant updates and, afaik, it's the same base as evoq. I am not sure what people are complaining about. DNNSoftware assured the community the open source will evolve. Free and commercial modules are available as before. DNNSoftware acquired some commercial modules and made available in evoq only. For the majority of users who don't use and will not use those modules, it's not an issue. Plus it seems to me it's a business opportunity to fill in the gap and create and sell comparable modules. If no one is interested in creating similar modules, then may be those modules weren't important enough after all.
 
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