Sometimes I must laugh

[PaulJones]

about people, writing a piece of software and sitting back and waiting to become rich. They themselves use open source for their project but spend a lot of time for the license prodcedure.

This is not a bad tool. But I think in the commercial range there are always programmer engaged. With ext2 my programmer needed ten minutes to write such a tool. And that is only a very, very small function of ext2.

Why this games with commercial licenses? You use open source as well, which has of course another license type.

Paul

[torstein.honsi]

My first draft for a thumbnail expander also took me ten minutes to write.

[PaulJones]

I was talking about using ext2. That needed 10 minutes.

ext2 is open source, the commercial license is just double than yours and the work load into that development is in the direction of man years.

Have a look: http://extjs.com

[scott]

I don't think the price is that bad for a commerial license. Yes, it's from an open source but he's actively working on it and improving it. If I'm paying a programmer to develop my site, why would I want to pay someone $50-100/hr creating and supporing something similar to Highslide?

I can work on it as well using ext2, but I'd rather focus my efforts on the core functionalities of my site.

Just my 2 cents (or whatever currency you use)

[treballo]

Yep, I'm right with scott's opinion. We finally decided to adquire a Highslide license because we run a commercial site and we focus more on our content than on the programming side.

We've bought several licenses (a forum, a news manager, a newsletter manager, highslide, ...) because if we had to do it by ourselves we should need to hire a very experienced (and expensive) programmer, but this way we can do it by ourselves.

We tested some free open source alternatives and other paid options and highslide looks to us like the more easy to integrate.

Just another two cents!

Sweet Greets,


//Alberto

[nemo]

Coming across Highslide was the best thing for my web-site, I am glad I found out about it before sticking with some other tool... It is so easy and simple to use, and just look at the forum's usage and answers you find for people's questions, this kind of support is priceless, and is no short than brilliant... While I don't have a commercial site, I do plan on purchasing a license soon... keep up the good work.