mydatery
1. Buy a license and you don't have to have the footers. The footers are only in place as a way of you compensating Boonex for the script they are providing to you. The majority of us pay for licensing and thus we don't have to have the footers.

2. No amount of additional development of the script gives you the right to bypass those links.

3. Open Source does not mean "Free" as many would like to claim it is synonomous with.

4. Even hackers who believe in "Open Source" see more will admit they have a right to make a living from what they do, why should a company not have a right to profit from what they do?
Anomaly
I absolutely agree that they do have every right to make a living and to put this script together as they have is more than a bit impressive. To even make it available for no cost is pretty amazing and I do not begrudge them links especially on the footers. It just seems that the way they are pushing it ... and yeah, I know a lot of people will remove them if they did not require the licensing too ... which was actually pretty intelligent and a great method for insuring that people do keep everything see more on the up and up .... but the way they write it and present it, it just sounds kind of pushy to me. Hopefully my efforts with this site will be successful and when I see, I will very likely be buying the licensing though I doubt I will remove all of their links. All-in-all, this really is too good to pass up. As for my clients, I will very likely encourage them to not only use the software but also to sign up for the affiliate program (if they can get any more response than I have to date) and keep at least a couple of active links on each page. I will also have them purchasing their own licenses and not trying to "blanket" them under mine when the time comes that I do have one.

Your second point was responding to a facetious question. Perhaps I should have been more clear but many people I am certain have already and will continue to try to disable the license so that they can get rid of the links. It is human nature and that is not to say that it is right, only that I would be willing to bet that a thorough search would find many such sites.
Anomaly
Nope, open source does not mean free. It is an opposition to Proprietary software where everything is locked up and "kept secret" and therein lies the problem. Windows must constantly "improve" and "upgrade" their software to keep people out. Such was the case with their NTFS file system, the new programs for Office and Excel with the docx and xlsx extensions. These are merely efforts to prevent open source software from being able to compete with them and are often see more released before they have gotten out of beta.

Linux Rocks, rocks break windows ... coincidence?

In the open source community ... as I have seen here, there are many people who have already been where I am. We work together to make things better and improve them. Unfortunately, since my strengths are not in programming, I have to research what other people are doing and follow their steps. When I can contribute something, I do but mostly, when it comes to scripts, I am pretty worthless.

As for making a living from their work, again, it seems like this product is actually very solid and while there may be some issues, that need to be addressed, it seems the community has done very well. It is hard to imagine that something this good would not gain some serious recognition. Even so, it would also be nice to be able to customize the links a little bit as I have done with the BoonEx link at the bottom of the page. In that case, I simply included my logo and "An Open Source BoonEx Community" and while I realize I am running Dolphin, not BoonEx, the BoonEx name was on the original link. Should such an "indiscretion" make me a bad person for making it look like something more relevant to my site and thus, my readers so that they are more likely to click on it and learn more about the BoonEx community?
 
 
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