Re: Arabeyes & Open Source

[Jamil Khatib <jamilkhatib75 at yahoo dot com>]

Salam,
First of all I wish you good luck.
Although I am not an active member of Arabeyes but I
think making the project as a closed source is not so
good for teh community specially for Arab world. You
will lose lot of developers and may be projects. Look
at what some open source people are doing when they
are supported by companies they keep their designs
open and find another way for companies to get back
their investiments. May be support, adding extra
features or so.
I hope I am not bothering anyone but this is  my
opinion.

Best regards,
Jamil Khatib
--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> 
> Salam,
> 
> After seeing how the Arabeyes has progressed
> throughout the last couple years+,
> we have had some interest from some private
> investors to take over the
> project.
> 
> Starting from next month, the project will be Closed
> Source and hand over
> its assets to the new investor (who has asked to
> remain anonymous at this
> time). All work that has been done so far will
> remain Open Source and anyone
> can continue to work on. However, further
> development will be closed source.
> 
> We thank you all for your hard work and efforts in
> making this project such
> a success.
> 
> Thank you.
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