Backbase AJAX Library

Not only is it not open source. It is not licensed for commercial usage without a very expensive license (almost $2000 per year per cpu). I think I am sticking with Prototype and Dojo. I would prefer to spend $2000 improving the current open source options then give it to a closed product.

Just thought that I’d go ahead and second what Supernerd said. Why spend $2k on this when you could spend that making something better that will help everyone? Not to mention, what’s here doesn’t look that much better than what you find elsewhere…The RSS reader seems to have duplicates of everything.

Backbase is a rip off, they have nice objects and display, but it’s not true opensource.

So basically you’re saying everything in life should be free and for the greater good of everyone? If thats so, then in this ‘perfect world’ of yours, why would anyone be remotely interested in doing anything, if everything was free and anything you created had to be shared with everyone else? Sounds like the lie of Socialism to me…

It really has nothing to do with the fact you charge for i (and so much for it).

It’s the fact that your trying to sell something that is easily found for free; it’s like trying to sell an application that says “Hello World”

Drag & Drop is easy, so is reading in an RSS feed..

You shouldn provide this lib for free and charge for support.. cause the only people that are going to use this are people who can’t do it on there own anyways and will need some help.

Nice graphics though..lol

Man these comments… basically along the lines of “I want companies to give me everything they develop for free! Commercial stuff sucks!”

Developers need to eat too, you know.

The first few commenters weren’t saying ‘everything in life should be free.’ In fact, no where did they say that.

If the only argument for using Backbase is “developers need to eat too, you know”, then Backbase is certainly in the wrong market.

They should move to the USSR and live under socialist rule.

Oh wait, that social experiment didn’t work out so well, did it.

OpenSource != Socialism.

Sure, Backbase have every right to sell a product they develop. Nobody’s saying Backbase should give away their work, just that others have already given similar work to the community.

If I offered you a free recipe for excellent cookies, Backbase would need a significantly better/different/unique recipe to justify charging for something I give to you gratis. This isn’t socialism: in fact, it’s an excellent example of a free market.

yeah.. 2K is a heavy price.. i can a whole site done for 2K at scriptlance

I’ve been developing a js library and am currently integrating an ajax module some effects, some bits and some pieces to it.

I am giving it uncommercially free, and will deliver it uncommercially free. And it is almost free for commercial use as well.

I too have been working on the API for about three years. And I consider myself expert enough, on the field of JavaScript, DOM, cross-browser issues, usability and accessibility.

Having said that, I really am unsure how an XmlHttpRequest wrapper along with some server-side bits and pieces cost more than many of the boxed graphical processing applications around where a few dozen year effort of a tens of people are put into.

Best,

I’m intrigued by Ajax library.
I may just give it a try

Keep up the good work, Backbase

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Very nice interface (the RSS reader has a clever GUI)

open source is the future. services are the future. thanks for trying backbase, but your libs are too expensive for me to care.

check out morfik.com, they said they’d give that away for free, it’s an Ajax ide. They’re gonna make all their money from building apps with the IDE they built, but they will need the opensource community to debug it and this is a nice 2 way relationship.

I don’t think you CAN FIND a FREE product that does what Backbase does, Prototype and DOJO don’t really cut it, have you scene the amount of things that backbase can do? Obviously not. Morfik is cool, but it has it’s own server, doesn’t support well known scripting languages such as PHP, ASP.net or Python. I don’t see MORFIK beeing around for very long since they have the same business model as all the early dot coms, give it away and we’ll make it up in volume. If anything it will be another unsupported platform in a few years.

there definitly needs to be some middle ground here….

start charging realistic prices, and you see the progress sky-rocket….

If the song “happy birthday to you…” became proprietary, would you feel insulted that you would have to pay fifty thousand dollars to the patent owner to have a copy of the song?

Or would you simply download the torrent, citing the fact that you never would have had fifty thousand dollars in the first place, and hey isnt this a basic part of human culture…..all should have it for free…

whats next charging sky-gazing tax….
“because promiscuity is a citizens duty”
“A gram in time saves nine”
“A grams better than a dam”

“I couldn’t bear to procure things for no cost”

“Aren’t I lucky to be a delta…”

Great big brother quotes airtonix