We’ve been getting all sorts of incredible feedback and requests for our PeopleAggregator product.

That’s a good thing.

We ever hired the Citizen Agency to full-time just bitch at me.  Though Tara did get some details wrong, we’re listening to everyone and we hope to start flowing out new features any day now.

We were determined ot make our Gnomedex deadline - so we shipped without a whole bunch of really obvious stuff.

But I can tell you right now - the odds of us supporting STOIC ontologies, or some whacky data access format or esoteric LID-like YADIS ID systems or someone’s idea of a coolio module - are slim.

We’re funding this project out of our own pockets - so we’ll wait for paid licenses to start flowing in - before we branch out beyond our core plans.  So our standard answer to any esoteric request is “hey that’s a great idea - just go download the code and do it yourself!”

I’ve also had people pitch me on why I can’t charge them - even though they plan on building commercial systems with our code. I believe teh logic went something like this “well what are you gonan say to the Free Software movement.”

My answer “tell them to go spend their own $700k-$1M on the equivalent code and give it away for free.” That’s why we took all GPL code out of PeepAgg and built a compete clean room implementation - so we can do what we want with it.

And that includes giving it away to everyone EXCEPT vendors who monetize their members.  Its kind of amusing to hear some free software guy pitching ME as to why I have to give our stuff away so he can exploit and monetize his members and NOT owe us anything.

:-)  Hah hah - good joke.

And to all you who don’t like our UI design - guess what? Go get the source and create your own!  That’s the whole idea!

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