Idea Did you just rename everything?

You mentioned you have a payment model available for support and when you change your support model to paid support like it seems many involved with Joomla! have already done - I will definitely be a subscriber.

The only reason I would subscribe is because you normally have a very good product - NORMALLY.

I just discovered a bug in Kunena 1.7.0 with Joomla! 1.7.1: it throws a 500 Error if you are subscribed to a category, select in the admin panel to auto tick the subscribe to this topic and then reply to a topic with that box ticked. BANG! 500 Internal Server Error. But it still posts the reply.

But back on topic. The truth is, most of the products I have subscribed to really suck badly and most are from India. The only exception that comes to mind is my subscription to JCE Editor. That is a very good editor with some really good modules and plugins.

I spent over $200 for Jomwall and it just sucked on all levels - Especially for support. They are lucky I am not in India.

I spent nearly $70 for Jbolo and it sucks really bad too. I called India to get help with it in fact. It seems to be written by some kid that lives with his parents. His mom said, "He is in his bedroom sleeping, I will get him." Dogs were barking in the background, his mom was screaming in her native language and all I could think was "Good Grief What Have I Done."

I would like to see the GPL changed to read - if you offer GNU GPL software you can only charge for support - not the software. Otherwise you are held hostage and people spend money on a scam. You never get good support, you will never get your money back and no one cares.

In most cases we are paying top dollar for a couple pages of dysfunctional code. Kunena is a rarity because it is such a large and intricate package. Unfortunately as soon as you put a price tag on it everyone will jump ship and move to PhpBB or some other free package.For the record I think your product is superior to even Vbulletin (Which costs a pile of cash and sucks on the Admin side).

I would like to be involved in your 2.0 Beta and will be more than happy to lend any resources at my disposal to assist with testing.

I believe that 500 Error was already fixed (your bug report in github), so I'll just make some comments regarding this topic..

In my opinion JomSocial API is much better than in most Joomla software -- at least they have an API. For example API in Kunena 1.7 is very basic and limiting. I'm happy to say that this will change in 2.0, where we have pretty good framework that is used also by Kunena itself.

In general -- let's not blame other products in our site as probably our software is as bad as the others are -- for some users. All software has bugs and some of them are really hard to track down, especially if they cannot be reproduced by anyone in our team.

You can also sell GPL software -- you just need to give source code to everyone who buys it and you grand them permission to do whatever they want to do with it (well, almost).

Kunena will always remain free and open, but there might be some paid templates, add-ons or plugins offered from the team for those users who need more than the normal features. Selling just support is too much work for too little money, so there must be something else to offer, too. Otherwise we'd just use all our time by supporting the product and the product itself doesn't evolve.

PS. You can apply to our testers team (JomSocial group).