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Shopigniter lands $8m in funding,http://t.co/Gw32W5w

I wonder if they are powered by codeigniter..

Yes they are - which makes their product name even more lame.

$11M lame, I’ll take it.

I didn’t say 11 million dollars is lame.  I said the name of the product is lame.

They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

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They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

Where’s a Like-Button when you need one? 😉

But we already got EllisLab as a company behind CI, not sure we need another one.

They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

So, anybody and everybody who builds an app using CI should be “actively supporting” the framework?  What does that even mean?  It makes no sense.  Wouldn’t that also mean anybody and everybody using PHP should “actively support” the language?  Oh, and then PHP requires hardware and other software to run, so we have to support that too…

What exactly is your point, and why would anybody +1 this?

If you don’t agree you are entitled to your opinion.  I am of the opinion if you are using an open source product to further your career or corporate objectives you absolutely should support the project by giving back libraries, features, core fixes, etc.

Look at CMS frameworks, there are hundreds of commercial enterprises using and contributing back to the projects.  Why not Reactor too?

I have a small venture backed start-up and fully intend on OS libraries in the coming months.

If you don’t agree you are entitled to your opinion.

Well thank you so much for that.  I wasn’t sure if I was entitled to my own opinion or not, so I’m glad you cleared it up for everyone.

Seriously though - I agree with you now that you’ve spelled out what you meant by “actively supporting”.  That could have meant a hundred different things which have nothing to do with the meaning and purpose of open source software.  But… who’s to say they haven’t contributed or don’t already contribute in some manner?  It’s quite possible they have or do and we’re just not aware.

Nobody really has to give anything back Developer13. You are correct about this. But we re not talking about have to, we are talking about ethical here. If I am to make money from this product, I feel obliged to at least help in forums (no one of course knows if this is happening, it could and we wouldn’t have to know about it) if not at least give small stripped source code (which will also benefit me since I’ll always have developers testing my code in different environments)

So I’ll stick to +1 even though they might be contributing in a way or another.

@osci - I think you may not be following along here.

They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

This could have meant any number of different things, but the poster clarified their intention.  No need for a lesson in ethics here - all of the software that I develop that isn’t for a client is released as free and open source.  This is my way of giving back.  If you’d read the last post in response to RJ, you’d see that this matter has already been resolved.

If you don’t agree you are entitled to your opinion.

Well thank you so much for that.  I wasn’t sure if I was entitled to my own opinion or not, so I’m glad you cleared it up for everyone.

Seriously though - I agree with you now that you’ve spelled out what you meant by “actively supporting”.  That could have meant a hundred different things which have nothing to do with the meaning and purpose of open source software.  But… who’s to say they haven’t contributed or don’t already contribute in some manner?  It’s quite possible they have or do and we’re just not aware.

Agreed.  If not, maybe this post will prompt action.  Nice MyClientBase product BTW.

Cheers!

They should be actively supporting the framework if their product is built on CI.

+1

+1