1 Oct
2004

More on SearchBlackBox

The more I think about this, the madder I get.  In light of my
previous post where SearchBlackBox did nothing to improve upon Lucene.Net in order
to take it commercial, I found and downloaded the last available code from the freely
available open source space.

Here it is. http://lucenedotnet.wz.cz/

If that link ever dies, I will host the files here unless SearchBlackBox
does something that I should pay for. 

Rant

It is a crappy thing to do to take this software private when the original
intent was to offer it in the open source community.  To take the software and
make something better from it to charge for is one thing, but to remove it even though
it was available yesterday under the open source EULA is something else entirely.

Secondly, this software is a DIRECT port of another open source project!
How about this? I’ll just read the source code lines for FlexWiki and re-type them
in Java.  Then I’ll offer my code for free. Then I’ll rip it away from you and
tell you you can’t have it anymore unless you pay for it.

Good grief.  You guys at SearchBlackBox weren’t using your noodles.