Hi, Ken McDonald (kenmcd),
It is NEVER acceptable to delete anything in a user's database or on their website without their knowledge and permission.
It is NEVER acceptable that some extension gives the tool to violate copyrights. The modifications are only protection of copyrights.
So in fact, you, Ken McDonald, are the killer of free extensions and of free software as you cannot think forward.
As I wrote you many times, the Phoca Gallery is free extension. I am only one who develop it. And I have strange time issues. I am not able to answer all the posts in the forum, I am not able to help people on their servers (as I usually do), I am not able to email them the support. So the link in footer is very important to the project. As you know I am helping to every people. For people who try to ask posts in the forum regularly or contribute to the project with translation or improvement I give advices how to hide the link.
It is an enormours help for me, if e.g. people try to help me with answering the posts in the forum. But it seems, you don't know the word "help".
After you will help a lot of people I have helped (of course for free) then please come here and you can write your ideas about open source which are of course wrong. With your ideas you can only stop free extensions development and supporting commercial extensions. (Are you supporting some commercial extensions? It seems yes, because you are fighting against all possible free extensions)
So, lets sum it up.
Please, Ken McDonald,
- after you will do over 50 free extensions as I did
- after you will help a lot of people via email as I do
- after you will help a lot of people on their servers as I do
- after you will make over 12000 answers on different Joomla! forums as I did
- after you will spend parts of donation to beneficence as I do
- after you will help with sites for not profit organizations for free as I do
then you can write here your ideas about open source but before it, don't damage other projects, please do, do something useful.
Jan