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well i suppose anyone could take away all the code/files which are freely available (open source) and continue the work then post it as myCommerce to a website of your choice? so far theres a lot of complaints but none has ever dared to try it themselves
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Mmmm ...let me think now?? Zen Cart? Cre Loaded? osc Max? To name just three Open Source offshoots of osCommerce. And of the 3 Zen Cart has at least branched out on its own and developed its own coding base.
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it is easy to say osCommerce is poorly coded due to its dependence on register globals
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Agreed. When osCommerce was first released there was no concept of having Register Globals 'off'.
The problem is that things have moved on from then and osCommerce hasn't.
Our own commercial ReadyCart is originally based on osCommerce, but in the next few months it will be MySQL 5 (Strict Trans Tables), Register Globals 'off', and Register Long Arrays 'off' compatible - and it is a much bigger programme than osCommerce (roughly four times the size). Only one minor change was needed to make it PHP 5 compatible.
So if we can do that then how come the osCommerce Project hasn't been able to do it in the whole of the past 4-5 years? The answer is quite simple really - the whole project is owned and run by just one person and for the past 4-5 years he has been living on past glories.
No one else can do anything under the name of osCommerce, because he owns almost every top level domain and the name, under his own personal name.
There's nothing that's registered to the "osCommerce Project". If they had been registered to the "osCommerce Project" then "The Team" could have shunted him to one side, or removed him completely, and moved the project forward. And that's why it's all registered in his name, and why that won't change!
Vger