Re: OmniWeb is now free!

On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Michael Burton wrote:

> At 6:59 PM -0800 2/24/09, Ken Case wrote:
>> OmniWeb is now free!  For the official press release, see the  
>> message to our omni-press mailing list:
>>
>> 	http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/omni-press/2009/000118.html
>>
>> For a little more context and background, see the Macworld article:
>>
>> 	http://www.macworld.com/article/139027/2009/02/omniweb.html
>>
>> With the price barrier removed, we hope that more people are able  
>> to enjoy OmniWeb.  Tell your friends!
>
> This is one of those "Good news, bad news" things.
>
> I was really looking forward to bug fixes and new features in  
> OmniWeb 6.0, but I do understand that it's awfully hard to compete  
> against "free."
>
> Any chance of making OmniWeb open-source?

Open sourcing OmniWeb is something we've considered but not at this  
time. We do still intend to do OmniWeb 6 as well as general  
maintenance releases. As far as our development of OmniWeb goes, this  
has no affect, this price just better reflects the current state of  
things (like how all other browsers are free, and that we aren't  
giving it the amount of developer time we'd like to for a commercial  
release). We still use OmniWeb here though, it's the only browser I  
use. We don't want it to die any more than you do!

-Troy