Mugshot - open source social network
So the PeopleAggregator will NOT be open source.
You can download the source - yes. And modify it - yes.
You won’t ever have to pay us - if you’re non-profit, a student or a developer.
But we WILL be asking for money from commercial exploitation of our software - so that means we’re not open source. Just so we’re clear.
All you have to do is go get a Linux desktop, set it up with all this downloaded code, and ONLY run Mugshot. Cause its not clear if anything else runs on a computer set up with Mugshot.
With PeopleAggregator - you can go to a web site, join a network, click a button and spawn off your OWN network - or download some code and set up your own spawning, meta-network installation - that you control.
But that software works via a browser - not a specialized, client side, linux open source social network. Like Mugshot. That means that everyone on the social network ALSO has to have a LInux desktop, downloaded, client side open source installation that doesn’t run anything but the social network.
Lots of people are talking about Mugshots, but they’re not mentioning this simple fact.
The mugshot client was written for Windows as well as Linux. If you join the mugshot site we’ll give you a free client that fits your platform, be it windows or linux and we’d like to support OS X soon; there are people already working on the port (that’s the open source part in action). Sorry for the misunderstanding, we do aim to have a more browser only experience later on but for now the client is necessary.
Thanks Brian!
June 1st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
The mugshot client was written for Windows as well as Linux. If you join the mugshot site we’ll give you a free client that fits your platform, be it windows or linux and we’d like to support OS X soon; there are people already working on the port (that’s the open source part in action). Sorry for the misunderstanding, we do aim to have a more browser only experience later on but for now the client is necessary.
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:52 am
Funny..
One day you’re saying “this whole copyright, trademark and patent law system sucks”
The next you’re saying “So the PeopleAggregator will NOT be open source.”
So tell me.. What’s the meaning of “whole” in your dictionary?
June 4th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
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November 23rd, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Well… I’m not too impressed with either Mugshot or PeopleAggregator.
Mugshot seems to ask too much of the user and PeopleAggregator starts charging $2500 at 250 users and much more after that. It would be nice to have an alternative that was open source in the “everyone profits from collaborating to make a great application” sence of open source…
Isn’t there something somewere? Still looking…