the Truth About Ray Ornhay's Rabid BlogCFC
A friend of mine, who authored another coldfusion blog product called BlogFusion, pointed me to a discussion going on in the cf community about Ray Ornhay's Rabid_BlogCFC software. You see, Mr. Ornhay took Ray Camden's BlogCFC product, made a few changes to it, and is distributing the code under the name "Rabid BlogCFC" as encrypted source code. If you want the unencrypted source, he wants you to pay for it - even though the vast majority of the work was done by the original author.
Not that he's not legally entitled to do so under the various open source licenses, probably including the extremely informal one that Ray uses. Still, it violates the intent of the open source movement - especially given how few changes he actually made to it.
As you may know, I wrote the blog software that this blog is based on - BlogCFM. I used a very unrestrictive license because I felt if someone wanted to put a lot of time and effort into my basic blog tool to develop something worth paying for, then I don't have a problem with that. I'd like it if they asked me but they wouldn't have to.
But if someone downloaded my blog, rebranded it as their own without making a lot of changes or updates.. well, that would kinda tick me off.
At any rate, I can say that Ray Ornhay has taken someone elses work and is trying to profit from it.
Don't use his blog. try the original blogCFC:
Because my blog uses the nofollow attribute to help dissuade comment spammers, I'll post any interesting links posted below here:
ray(Ornhay)Sucks.onesite.com
Joe Rinehart
Dynamic Flash
Drisgill
John Beynon
Wayne Graham good point about Copyright and Intellectual Property
Stephen Collins
Sean Corfield
Ray Camden (official blogCFC author)
John Wilker
Robert Blackburn
Pete Freitag (Open Source Licenses)