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Originally Posted by ADDISON
If QT would have a Community Edition for XC I see no reason to make this forum public.
Else, XC is still a paid software. All who paid for it have unrestricted access. What kind of discussions we will have here if making it public to all, any improvement? It will be the same, those who don't have a license will come only to ask general things about XC as usual.
The only positive step forward I see for the moment is getting a feedback from potential users/developers of XC, those who are using XC demo version.
All popular open source/free shopping carts have public forums because these solutions are free. Like XC there are other paid shopping carts which offer access to their forums only if you buy a license. Nothing wrong in QT policy making this forum public only for a few sections, those for general questions.
Anyway I have to appreciate one thing. It is an good approach from QT asking in public XC Community for this.
It is just a personal opinion ...
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Completely agree with you. Makes no sense unless they've bought the product. (unless they're just seeing if x-cart has an active forum) but to be honest I would take a different approach and just make a trial for full access to the forum.
I can't see x-cart making a free version even though it would be great. If they did do it I can see HUGE benefits to everyone.
Look at it like this, the more people who use x-cart shopping cart even if it's free or the paid version x-cart would make more money. People need upgrades, customizations, hosting, modules, and so on. With more money xcart can keep improving it's shopping cart. As I said before more people means a bigger community which will give more ideas to improve x-cart. Third party websites will make more money which would hopefully encourange them to make better mods, more people will need hosting, the list really goes on and on.
Ha but I'm a 19 year old noob. Sorry for going way off topic here.
