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Re: Anyone familiar with "aspforums"?

Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with "aspforums"?
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:12:09 -0500



Bruce Byfield wrote:

Dick Margulis wrote:

I found a free engine for adding a discussion forum to our Web site, at www.aspforums.com, and it looks like just the ticket for what I want to do.

You might also look at some sort of Zope and Squishdot combination (I'm assuming that you're running the web site *NIX, of course).

Bad assumption. NT4/IIS, unfortunately.


Unfortunately, because it is freeware (GNU Public License),
there is no support available.


To be picky, it's not freeware, it's free software. Freeware doesn't cost anything, but doesn't release the source code. Free software may or may not cost something, but is free in the sense that it releases the source code. Anything released under the GNU GPL is free software by defintion, or possibly open source,which is much the same thing.

Yes. I was searching the bottom of my brain for the right phrase, but it was hiding under some dustbunnies in the corner. Thanks.


But, more importantly, are there no forums for aspforums? That's the traditional source of support for free software. Zope, for example, is extremely well-served by a couple of web sites, and, more recently, by at least one book.

Actually, they offer a forum right on their site. I posted there. Then I noticed that of the thirty or forty posts in the last week that show up on the opening page, none had been replied to--including mine. So it's not very active ;-) Then I checked Google newsgroups and found about two posts (total) that related to the product. I wrote to those posters but did not receive a response. Finally I turned to techwr-l.


Possibly, of course, you're aware of this possibility, but I'm mentioning it publicly because more people are turning to free software recently (possibly because of Windows XP's restrictive licensing), so it's a point worth making to a wider audience.

Definitely.





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