Zac Bowling’s Blog

Looks as if one of my favorite applications is starting to sway in its professionalism towards open source. CVSNT seems to be changing around a bit on their site. The first thing you see is a basicly an ad for support services for CVSNT. You can still get CVSNT still for free under the GPL but the Wiki has been changed to be more of an ad too with every other reference back to their ‘main site’ to purchase a support contract. I hate this. The best part of the open source movement is the integrity.

What every open source developer has learned is that people trust our products because they can trust our intentions. What makes our products so great is that we don’t write our application s with the main intention of making money, gainning power, or even atacking . We write them for other reasons. I’m not saying it isn’t right to make money with open source products, but we don’t intentionally do anything to be considered bad taste in mind of the open source community.

This is just bad tastes. http://www.cvsnt.org - ironicly it redirects to http://www.ntcvs.com to state, I’m assuming, their jump to being a commerical entity.

Sad Sad Day.

Tags: Linux, Personal

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