yet another company pretending to do open source...
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.57.104.37]
on June 16, 2008 11:59 PM
I wish that "journalists" would actually do some research instead of seemingly parroting companies' press releases.
Dimdim isn't truly open source. They just pretend to be, and get all of this attention for being such a noble group. They do give out a few lines of code, but then lock up a bunch of stuff in (what I've read is) Java binaries distributed without source. Just you try compiling the WHOLE THING from source.
If I remember correctly, the community edition is limited to 1 meeting, 5 meeting attendees, and a maximum of 5 hours per meeting. Now, if it were truly open source, there wouldn't be such arbitrary numeric limitations -- people could just change the code and redistribute the patches.
The server was quite a pain to set up, too, let me tell you. In my opinion, the Community Edition is just a scam to get people interested enough to buy their hosted solution.
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yet another company pretending to do open source...
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.57.104.37] on June 16, 2008 11:59 PMDimdim isn't truly open source. They just pretend to be, and get all of this attention for being such a noble group. They do give out a few lines of code, but then lock up a bunch of stuff in (what I've read is) Java binaries distributed without source. Just you try compiling the WHOLE THING from source.
If I remember correctly, the community edition is limited to 1 meeting, 5 meeting attendees, and a maximum of 5 hours per meeting. Now, if it were truly open source, there wouldn't be such arbitrary numeric limitations -- people could just change the code and redistribute the patches.
The server was quite a pain to set up, too, let me tell you. In my opinion, the Community Edition is just a scam to get people interested enough to buy their hosted solution.
Now I use Openmeetings instead.
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
They're open source for REAL.
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