Comments on: Backbase AJAX Library

By: Supernerd

Supernerd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: AaronCampbell

AaronCampbell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: davol

davol — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: Fred Nerk

Fred Nerk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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…

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: roderickm

roderickm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: san

san — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: volkan.ozcelik

volkan.ozcelik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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,