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Recently Hybodus, a network monitoring tool, decided to halt development because their lead developer had left them.
Hybodus is using ioncube to encode its PHP sourcecode, preventing paying customers from distributing and modifying the code.
This is of course a good idea, but requires the company to activly develop and bugfix the project, as this doesn’t seem possible anymore, I encurrage the Hybodus developers to release the project as open source, at least release the code to paying customers.
If I had a chance to look at the code, I could fix all the bugs and implement the features I wanted, right now I’m stuck with a product I cannot control and won’t receive updates on.
hi Tom,
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I’m stuck with a product I cannot control and won’t receive updates on.
I am whole your opinion
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Hybodus is back in active development and we’re Beta testing Hybodus 2.1 right now with major input from the community and reactions from our development staff.
I am a paying Hybodus customer, and recently lost my system that was running Hybodus. Now I am having trouble getting the license. If it was open sourced I also would be able to fix the bugs, and continue using it.
(Note: As a paying customer I would have gladly donated the same price as the license to an open source project as good as Hybodus.)