[Dynapi-Chat] Widgets - free or unfree?

[Volker R. <Vol...@bi...>]

Hi List,

another point i have spent thinking some time on is aching me now to be 
published (especially after the comments by Doug <- nothing personal!):

i playing around with the dynapi since i found the dynapi v1 by stan 
last year. i build a site on bats and their conservation 
(www.flaus-online.de) using some dynapi 1 code. i have also used dynapi 
2 (2.5X and < 2.5) for some dhtml games at the kids section of 
flaus-online.de and my personal site (www.web-dizain.de - dhtml section).

My point in the discussion of licensing and commercal widgets is: if one 
uses the dynapi for private use, it is free, as asked in the GPL 
license. if someone like dan is developping widgets, spending hours and 
days, and somen else is using them within the dynapi for a comemrcial 
product, why is he allowed to use them all for free? the later is 
earning real money (in my case about 50$ an hour). so all the widget 
developpers are the fools. why bother, charge the customer another 30$, 
cause we are talking about real projects, worth 1000 to 3000 $.

Anyhow, my second intention was to talk about the problems Doug had with 
not tested dynapi. Only one thing - who is not testing his site offline 
before putting his files online? sorry, bugs are normal, there was never 
a dynapi version without them because they live in the code an dtry to 
hide from tests and pop up when you do not expect them (that is my view 
as a biologist).

i will be the first paying money for using widgets derived by hard work 
from the standard examples!

To Dan: Please find a way for paing easily. think about people from 
europe maybe even without credit cards!

So, I did not want to stirr everything up again, but as an user 
interested in further developments of the dynapi i thought i have to say 
this!

And now get Apple for sponsoring (<- related to my former thread)

volker