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5 posts Started 11 years ago by webmaster Latest reply from aggiaggiaggiaggi
you specially developed media-core to be hard to install, yet claim its
open source, its stupidly hard to install even being in the Linux
industry for some time. I've never seen such idiotic development in dependency.
The developers on here some of time, do not help the users that have trouble installing, even when its failing while following their so called
open source documentation on their page.
really terribly sad to come across such stupid developers. and greedy bunch of assholes.
> really terribly sad to come across such stupid developers. and greedy bunch of assholes.
I think this last sentence speaks for itself and I won't do you the favor of deleting your post. Instead I leave it online and everyone who likes to add some insults can do that here so you don't need to open new threads and bother the rest of us.
Just one note: Open Source is about doing and not about complaining. It does not include a "free lunch". As I like open source I invest as much time I can justify but as I don't make money from this forum, I can do it only when I have some spare time. If you want to have a simpler installation, just build it. If you don't have the knowledge to do it currently, take some time off and learn.
My 2 cents is that I'm both relatively new to managing Linux servers and totally new to Python, WSGI, etc., yet I've been able to follow the instructions on this and other sites to both install and slightly modify this product. Of course I've hit a few snags along the way but I've been able to ask a few questions here and elsewhere and have gotten through it. If I can do it, I think most people can if they take their time and go through the instructions carefully. I think it helps to be on a mainstream/popular OS with total control. Some people on hosted platforms may have more issues (or maybe not).
I will say that I wish there were more developers working actively on MediaCore CE right now as a large community is always nice, but I've gotten good support from Felix who I believe is the primary active developer. I would not want to be in this position as I think it's a lot of responsibility for 1 unpaid person to take on (BUT KEEP TAKING IT ON FELIX!!!!!). =)
MediaCore is a very nice product and I hope to see it continue as an open source project. I really haven't been able to find anything equivalent that's free.
PS: By "free" I mean that you're not going to pay $$ for it but you definitely should expect to put in some time and effort. You can't expect the same level of support for an open source project as a paid product.
> PS: By "free" I mean that you're not going to pay $$ for it but you definitely should expect to put in some time and effort. You can't expect the same level of support for an open source project as a paid product.
I think that is the essence. Nothing is for free. For open source products you may have to invest some time+knowledge where commercial products tend to be more polished so it's easier to use them. There are some exceptions when the commercial stuff is just crap or the open source product is so good that almost no one goes for a commercial product (e.g. nginx, Apache) but that's the exception imho (even if I'd love to see MediaCore to be used as easily as these top products).
Also currently I get quite a lot of MediaCore requests so it looks very good and probably I'll have add some more developers working on MediaCore which will increase the number of features in MediaCore CE.
Btw: I'm open to critiscm and have a pretty thick skin. However personal insults won't do and try also to see that many enhancements are a good idea though it takes time to build them (and my time is limited).
open source does not replace having a brain - while i have problems with my current installation (which i somehow start to think has to do with plesk... a commercial product) i installed several times on a standard apache installation on ubuntu and debian servers without problem. On a standard setup, the installation instructions provide you with all you need.
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