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Can Symbiostock ever be bought out?
Travelling-light:
Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.
bunhill:
Yep - Wordpress is notorious for being hacked if not kept up to date. Changes to Wordpress itself and to PHP and MySQL inevitably mean that over time the Symbiostock code will have to be kept up to date too.
It's a hugely impressive start and an interesting experiment but surely it will need many more coders and some sort of development methodology and structure before it could ever go mainstream.
cathyslife:
--- Quote from: Travelling-light on August 20, 2013, 17:18 ---Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.
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I would be interested in hearing the meaning of that. So it will be a program that is independently written? Not open source? If it works without Wordpress, wouldnt it have to be redesigned from scratch?
Anita Potter:
--- Quote from: cathyslife stockphotos.com on August 20, 2013, 17:22 ---
--- Quote from: Travelling-light on August 20, 2013, 17:18 ---Leo just said recently that Sym would eventually work without Wordpress.
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I would be interested in hearing the meaning of that. So it will be a program that is independently written? Not open source? If it works without Wordpress, wouldnt it have to be redesigned from scratch?
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I read that the other day and took it to be run as a Content Management System (CMS).
cidepix:
--- Quote from: cthoman on August 20, 2013, 16:07 ---
--- Quote from: bhr on August 20, 2013, 14:52 ---The code is some version of open source IIRC. A bigger issue I have been wondering (as a spectator) - what happens if Leo one day decides to stop developing and or maintaining and fixing the code ?
Most successful open source projects I can think of have a much bigger economic base and therefore either a team of developers or, ultimately, money for code. It's hard with Symbiostock to see what the model is from the development side. That could be me not understanding it properly.
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This is what I was thinking. Since Wordpress is always updating, I assume someone actually has to man the ship (code) occasionally.
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actually you don't have to update it.. I had a Wordpress store on the domain I installed SY since 2009 and I hadn't updated it for 3 years until I decided to switch to SY..
why update if it's already working and bringing in $$$ :)
If symbiostock.com / .net / .info were to be bought by getty and they decided to screw things up, you just never update again :) the store will continue working as is..
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