I am pleased to announce that I will soon be working full-time with Prototest and Pete Dignan (CEO of Prototest) to accelerate the development of new versions of Watir. They have very generously agreed to fund this work.
We are still working out the road map, but it looks like improving support for dialogs and putting together a plan for better support of Firefox will be tackled first. We are looking at Jira closer than ever, so if you do have specific features or bugs you'd like to see us attend to, please add your votes.
The recent discussion here regarding the license for Watir has been correct: Watir is free and anyone is allowed to distribute Watir for free. Also anyone is allowed to create commercial versions (improvements) to Watir and to sell them.
Both Pete Dignan and I are strongly committed to continuing to support a free version of Watir and see this as essential to Watir's success. We also are considering commercial improvements. There are many examples of other open-source tools that have both free and commercial versions, so this is well-established model for open-source software.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that I will soon be working full-time with > Prototest and Pete Dignan (CEO of Prototest) to accelerate the > development of new versions of Watir.
Bret,
I am glad you announced this yesterday, not today. :)
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com>
> wrote:
> > I am pleased to announce that I will soon be working full-time with
> > Prototest and Pete Dignan (CEO of Prototest) to accelerate the
> > development of new versions of Watir.
> Bret,
> I am glad you announced this yesterday, not today. :)
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