Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 03, 2005 10:33 PM
How does osCommerce abuse the term "open source"? You are able to get the product and look at it's source? Nothing is closed? Open Source does not mean "Perfect Method of Coding" that's called being "ANAL". There is a "Soon To Be" open source project out there where the author wants to publish it's code but because he feels the code a mess he won't until he gets more time to clean it. It's been a year and nothing has been published. By now, it's devoted users would have done the job for him. If the product works and you want to publish it then go ahead. I don't care if the entire application was written with BASIC and no function calls!
For an open source project that is nearing 6 years old, osCommerce in great shape even with it's problems. I have looked at the other forks and have opted to stay with osC because I usually have to customize it. Remember to re-write everything will mean that you throw away time that could be used for features and you lose it's massive library of add-ons which in turn you lose many of it's users.
I think osC should be offically forked by the authors and have a team working on the re-write with the acceptance that you will lose all the add-ons. The system should be modularize and should separate design and code [MVC].
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Re:total crap
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 03, 2005 10:33 PMFor an open source project that is nearing 6 years old, osCommerce in great shape even with it's problems. I have looked at the other forks and have opted to stay with osC because I usually have to customize it. Remember to re-write everything will mean that you throw away time that could be used for features and you lose it's massive library of add-ons which in turn you lose many of it's users.
I think osC should be offically forked by the authors and have a team working on the re-write with the acceptance that you will lose all the add-ons. The system should be modularize and should separate design and code [MVC].
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