So I guess ActiveCollab, the PHP project management software is no longer open source and is now a commercial piece of software. Interesting. I went to their website today to try and do a new download only to find out that I had to pay for ActiveCollab or I could do some sort of overhyped demo. Oh ok, I get it. You create an open source project and let hundreds of people contribute to it until they actually give you a product. Then you turn your back on all those people and make your software commercial. The software that really isn’t yours.
It’s unfortunate that their are groups out their like ActiveCollab that want to suck the resources of good open source followers for their own benefit and not contribute back to the community. Ridiculous. ActiveCollab, good luck with your commercial project management software. You are now joining a field where you are a dime a dozen. You will not succeed like you could have had you stayed open source. Chow.
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totally agree dude… And it’s a common way to make money with the efford of anonymous people. That sucks.
Actually ActiveCollab 1.0 is not based on the ActiveCollab 0.7 codebase. It was a complete rewrite from the ground up. What was ActiveCollab 0.7 has been forked and is now at http://projectpier.org/
ActiveCollab is a biggest piece of shit of a project management software ever concieved or created. The stupid waste of space doesnt even let you add tasks to a project. And if you manage to do that, you can’t even see when its due. This software must have been created by brainless gtd idiots who probably never actually get anything done and just faff about all day with this sleek looking, but otherwise garbage piece of code.
Whichever faux company uses this utter piece of garbage will surely fail like the company that created it.