fxstein wrote: Kunena is different. Kunena is not a product of yet another company trying to sell something to the Joomla community. Kunena is its own community of users, helpers, moderators, testers, developers and designers. It's the place we have created to help you come together and build a better forum/communication component for Joomla.
It’s a community within the much larger Joomla community. We are tightly connected with Joomla, are grateful to have various Joomla leadership members join in and help us over the short history of Kunena since its official launch in January 2009.
Recent news from other quarters within this niche market (no names, no pack drill) probably add further impetus to changing from a dot-com structure to a dot-org.
Although a simple name change from Kunena.com to Kunena.org may not appear terribly significant, I think it adds a distinctive layer to the derivative nature of what the
Kunena product is about. Moreover, changing to a dot-org gives a reassurance to the community that Kunena will remain free - free to develop as the community wishes, freely-distributed in the open source world and (perhaps above all) free of charge for users to acquire, use, and get help when they need it.
This is not to say that there isn't a reason for a Kunena.com to cease to exist, either. There are avenues for the Kunena product to be improved by sponsored development of the product or paid-for work and these activities might not particularly suit the dot-org structure. But, as far as the bulk of the development work goes, the
Kunena community, as a whole, profits from the results of this paid work.
Obviously, these are only my personal opinions.