Please tell the whole World what happened with the osCommerce project and trademark/copyright issues.

Please also update the World on the thriving true osCommerce Project.

Maybe it would also be good to tell everybody about osQuantum and what happened with that?

P.S. Please learn how to spell “believe”

The first point to remember is that THERE IS NO RECIPE.

That said here are a few pointers:

Titles should unique, descriptive and brief. They are not essays.

Descriptions should be unique to each product, as complete as possible and accurate in all respects. They also should be written to fill the customers need for knowledge – think “If I were a customer reading this, would I know enough to feel comfortable buying this product?”

http://creforge.com/tracker/?atid=546&group_id=119&func=browse 42 open

http://creforge.com/tracker/?atid=129&group_id=12&func=browse 67 open

So you are right. Just about 109 feature request remain open since 2005.

The number of misconceptions you offer up here as reasoning just boggles the mind. Lets take this in reverse order.

Validating and agreeing are not the same and it is in no way necessary that you agree with another persons statements for those statements to be validated by your own. It is sufficient that they support the original assertions by their content or tone even in a negative fashion.

In a free society, democracy certainly does have something to do with business operations. Businesses have owners, and those owner have votes as to the course the business should take, or at least as to who gets to manage operations. Employees in a free society do have a limited voting right. They can work to instantiate the managements plan, or they can quit. Customers certainly have democratic rights — they can vote for the product by buying it, or against it by buying an alternative product. These elements always exist – they are universal conditions which may be shaped to an organizations benefit, or detriment but never successfully ignored.

osCommerce owes me nothing? I never argued that the osCommerce project owed me anything – so, this is just logical sediment..

I insist on a final release? Not from the osCommerce project. I stated that a very significant portion of the buyers who form a software market expect periodic full releases of software to occur. That terms such as “beta”, “Milestone” and “Release Candidtate” are used to denote that a software distribution is a matter of industry practice – not my opinion or yours. I do find it laudable that the new project has put their reputations behind a decision and deplorable that the traditional project has not and I have said this as well. The first statement I hold to be a self evident fact readily apparent to anyone who has listened in the marketplace. The latter is my own opinion – but in no way a demand. That is your own embellishment and yet more logical sediment.

Trademarks, copyrights and project ownership? Well, it is certainly correct that the traditional website never specifically states that the software is owned by the community. Neither does it state anywhere that the software is the sole property of Harald Ponce de Leon. Neither does it identify any other owner. The trademark policy refers to “we” and “our” but never identifies who “we” and “our” might be. The copyright notice page assigns the copyrights solely to Harald Ponce de Leon. I would say this fairly supports an assertion that project ownership is murky at best. Which brings us to the definition of moribund…

Moribund – may be defined as either: Approaching death; about to die; expiring or Almost obsolete, nearing an end. If one supports a position in which there is a separation between the community and the project proper (as you seem to argue for at least some purposes), it is difficult to escape a conclusion that the project itself is or has been moribund. Need it stay so? Of course not. The fact that Harald has since my initial publication of this article released a distribution which may be supported on a PHP 5 base for some time and in some fashion better than the previous release does not change the fact that osCommerce maintainability has been slipping for some time and improvements in usability have been few and far between in terms of contributions by the project itself. Those who would argue that the community IS the project (as Harald seems to in his recent posts pointing to the 2007 to 2008 addon posts as a sign of life in ‘osCommerce’), might point to the Addon’s statistics to argue that the project is not moribund, though in the absence of the minimum 3 years of data needed to establish trending that is a weak reed at best.