1. As said in the announce, all guys who helped us making the application as it is actually will receive a special offer to thanks their help.
2. The application remains open source.
3. The commercial point needs more explanations:
As everyone we need to earn money in order to have a decent (human ?) life. With every project that take importance like PHPEdit, a time comes where there's a choice to do:
a) stop the project because it take too many time
b) find a way to earn money from the project. There's several ways to do this, like sending training, sending relative services (custom development, php development...)
c) sell licences of the product.
Commerce is the basis of our society, this is a mark which show that you appreciate this product/service. I was like you, thinking that the world is nice, that FREE open source is the best choice. Fortunately, because I was using it. If you've got the choice between something free and something not free, for the same quality, you'll often taking the free one. But this point of view don't take in account both sides; you only see your side. If you look at both, you'll see that this is not a valid exchange in the long term. Because this tool make you become more productive and so on, why should this be free ?
In the enterprise world, time = money; less required time => more money keeped in the company. Why, in this case, the company mustn't pay for this tool ?
Our change is nothing more than that: If you use our tool to become more efficient and gain more money, you need to pay for it allowing us to make it more efficient. Where is the bad in this ?
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