2A lot of news surrounding LxLabs and HyperVM after last week’s FsckVPS fiasco. Via this discussion thread on WebHostingTalk, where an LxLabs employee talks about the future of company and its software:
lxbhargava said
Today I had discussion with Ligesh’s family. From the discussion it is appears that Lxlabs will not continue to run the business.They are considering, releasing the software Kloxo and Hypervm under an Opensource license.
Companies come and go, but code don’t die if they are open sourced (well, they might hibernate if there is not enough interest, but that’s another matter). Infrastructure software like HyperVM ought to be open sourced. Actually — companies relying on infrastructure software ought to either use something open source or write their own. Having core part of business replying on an independent 3rd party that might go out of business overnight is just way too risky IMHO.
I know nothing is set in stone yet, and they are still considering. However I believe it would definitely be a welcomed move by the smaller VPS providers.
In all honesty, nothing has been done with the source code yet. As it stands, we will continue to develop the software once we have an admirable development staff. After that, development will resume, as will the invoices for paying customers.
Once development has resumed, new customers will need to pay an additional surcharge for setting up the client area, as well as maintaining the license servers. This is a one time fee, after which, the recurring rate will remain the same.
We have already decided on a consortium to head things up, as well as promoted several forum users to admins, and developers. We have had several discussions about going open-source, but have opted to develop under a mixed licensing system, all developments made to already open-source packages we maintain, will continue to be open-source, all specific development with the core application(s) will continue on a pay-per-seat type of license.
It will be a big disappointment if open sourcing HyperVM and Kloxo did not eventuate. Can you clarify your statement, Brijesh, as it does seem to be a bit contradictory to what has been written on LxCenter.org?