In reply to Marmalade
DeeEmm
@mydatery - I agree, there are a few of us, but considering that the little counter on the main page has clicked up 379282 downloads (567 today) just for D7, I would have expected that there would be more than there are.

I know that Wordypress etc are very different products from Dolphin, it's not the features that I am comparing, just the expectations that new users of Dolphin have of support - perhaps as you say wrongly. I know that when I first started using Dolphin I had these same expectations see more - that help should be free and plentiful, and that extensions should be free.

Now I know that Dolphin is different from these other products - In my opinion, not necessarily because it is bigger or better or more complex - but simply because it is a commercial product and the model surrounding how Boonex runs is geared towards being a successful business, not winning kudos points in a geek contest, as with these other open source projects. (BTW I consider myself a geek)

Personally, I think that Boonex has an excellent framework - taking what others are doing for free and turning it into a commercial enterprise, my comments elsewhere (http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Product_release_cycles) are actually in support of this - making it better is both good for Boonex (business) and good for the end user.

Not sure if the whole model of how the product is sold, and how the marketplace that supports it is set up, was a conscious endeavor, or it's just a coincidence that there are a greater percentage of commercial mods than free ones, but I tip my hat to Andrey and those involved.

/DM
 
 
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