It is very discouraging to see this message that ByOSTech no longer supports their product or forum:
Forum support provided by ByOSTech Support Team is temporary stopped until further notice.

Also, admin's last post is August 2007.

But it is even more discouraging that the website seems abandoned. The following pages do not mention JACLPro 1.5. Why?

1. Product - JACLPlus!
2. JACLPlus Support List
3. How To - JACLPlus!
4. Downloads
5. Enhance Access Control
6. Installation Guide

This page contains comments which are no longer true:

• Chartered Membership

Although we implement Chartered Member, you still can get our supports and components for FREE if you are not our Chartered Member.
Feel free to make your decision to become our Chartered Member and we will try our best to support our FREE Members as well.
As a way to thank our Chartered Members for their support, they will have first access to any releases of our components (almost a month earlier) before the rest of the users or a widespread public release. Especially, our JACLPlus Component for Joomla! 1.5

These facts are very discouraging!

• ByOSTech no longer has support or free components.
• ByOSTech does not offer JACLPlus Component for Joomla! 1.5.
• JACL requires Zend Optimizer (no ioncube, no IIS server)
• No updated Documentation for 1.5.
• Tech support by e-mail only (very secretive!)

I cannot believe this topic gets no response from ByOSTech:

• How Do I Download JACLPlus for Joomla 1.5?

I eventually found this hidden website which is the LICENSE AGREEMENT for JACLPro 1.5.
JACLPlus Pro is provided as our chartered members' free software and therefore provided 'as-is'.
The ByOS Technologies, its subsidiaries, its developers, contributors and its parental legal entities offer you JACLPlus Pro for absolutely free for your own personal use, pleasure and education.
When is $108 a year = free software?


It seems to me that maybe it is not just the website, but all of JACL which is abandoned. Just take the money and run? I used to be a strong advocate of JACLPlus, but it seems like it's time to jump off this ship!

To be honest, rather than rant and rave about the fact that a component which takes a heck of a lot of work to create, update and maintain, decides to instigate a sub_script_ion system for users to access the latest versions, why not swallow your pride and actually pay these developers the respect they deserve.

I have been a Chartered Member for some time now and have found their support to be outstanding. Chartered Members are able to email support requests and I have generally had a response the same day - at most within 2-3 days if I email on a Friday, but that is to be expected.

You are mis-quoting the information on the site, by the way. If you read about Chartered Membership you will see that the LATEST RELEASES are made available ONLY to Chartered Members. Therefore many of the 1.5.x series releases are only available to subscribers - many previous versions are, as far as I am aware, available to non-subscribers.

Ruth

1.5.x series releases are only available to subscribers - no 1.5 versions are available to non-subscribers.

I fixed it for you.

If they do not want to maintain the website or the forum, they should take down the forum. Right now it's an embarassment.

With the ZEND Encryption, I cannot use JACL 1.5 and due to the lack of transparency from support, I cannot recommend it to my clients.

Maybe if they add ionCube support (since every time I visit this site there are big banner ads for ionCube on the right side) and start posting on the forum, it will improve.

First of all the concept behind GNU, and Open Source is this

Open Source and GNU Public Licensing, is simple - you may download distribute, have access to the source code
and modify or reverse engineer the product at will.

Just like linux the software is free, however the support is what you are going to have to pay for if you dont want to spend hours upon hours researching, reading and testing.

Now JACL Plus Pro is only for Chartered Members, so that determines that it is in fact Sub_script_ion ware. So yes you are in fact paying for it, however due to its nature a specific time_frame_ of support is also included in the sub_script_ion so that you are able to use this forum, and email the admins to be able to get help in implimenting the extension.

The simple reason for this is that people are going to screw up the install, they are going to need help with it, and they are also going to generally whine, complain and give the extension a bad rep in the community becuase they dont know how, or are too inexperienced or unmotivated to do the research and necessary troubleshooting methods to correct the situation.

Example, they have already built the site, and do not want to destroy the site just because they found this neat new extension that will do what they want to joomla. However JACL is in fact a HACK!! meaning that it does do a certain amount of damage to the Joomla Core, and Joomla was never intended to support this kind of capability but the extension Modifies Joomla so that it does.

Every other extension in the joomla library is made to work with Joomla Core Components, and they all have issues while they are in development and they all have bugs that are found out about later. Unfortunately if you install an extension and it corrupts your whole website, then its start over time and you definitely need to a backup to re-instate everything.

So, here is the deal.

You are paying for the support and the collaboration of others that have paid for support in making this a better product. Lets keep within the spirit of GNU and Joomla, and make this a better product through research and writing so that it benefits all of us in the end.

Only took 3 months for a response that completely ignored my points.

JACLPlus for Joomla 1.5 is not GPL/GNU. It is commercial only and it is encrypted with Zend Optimizer. JACLPlus for Joomla 1.5 is a private, commercial, encrypted product.

I purchased JACLPlus for Joomla 1.0.x and used it and recommended it to clients because there was a free version and supported version, and because there was an active forum about it. Forum support is crucial due to the language barrier.

Because those reasons are gone, I cannot recommend JACLPlus 1.5:

• JACLPlus 1.5 requires Zend Optimizer


• No product demo (the demo site is JACL 1.0.x only)


• No forum support


• Just have to buy it and "take your word for it" that it will work

I am just keeping Joomla 1.0.x patched until Joomla 1.6 comes out with ACL included and then won't require an add-on.

Why do you expect it to be free? You can get the older versions for free, but this is a complex component and I think the developers are totally justified in charging for sub_script_ions as a way of supporting users and also still feeding their families. I think it's only fair. If you had to write a file manager component for a client, how many hours would you quote? Probably a lot more than a few hundred dollars.

Wow, nearly 11 months after my post and someone (not the owner of this site) finally replies. And not even answering the issues like ionCube being heavily advertised on this site, but JACLPlus requires Zend and does not offer an ionCube version. What a joke.

Anywho, JACLPlus is dead when Joomla 1.6 comes out. It will have full ACL for FREE.

Maybe you have had a different experience to me. I have paid for the Pro version. Installed it, it worked, and then it stopped working. I have raised around 9 calls to the developers with not a SINLE REPLY.

I have a 3000 user site going live and I cannot get the groups to work again. to add insult to injury, my sub_script_ion automatically renewed last week. My point here bieng that they state clearly it is a repeat sub_script_ion which can be cancelled via Paypal... BUt it is NOT. I cannot find an repeat sub_script_ion entry in my Paypal account, meaning they have automated their system somewhere to extract another Paypal payment and I cannot stop it.

I find it appalling that there is not even basic support or even a basic response from the developers at all. In the long run they are only doing their own reputation damage. They have another byostech website (looks much slicker than this one) - which they also do not reply to.

What will happen to sites who need to upgrade to a new version if they are not there, after implementing a series of products to work with it. My site uses AEC, CB, Docman, K2, JACL, Proma and all are dependent on this module. If they have a good product then some effort should be made to support it, albeit to paying customers!

I have a further problem, since I got no support I've tried to replicate the problem on two test sites. as a result of this I have apparently run out of licenses. When I signed up I was not made aware I had only three licenses to play with. Now I cannot even license my live site. I've asked them to revoke two of my licenses to do so - have they replied? NO!

In my opinion they should stop all customer payments being extracted, update the website to state there is no support whatsoever, and inform their existing clients on what they intend to do in the future.

The future:
http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1118-joomla-16-update-february-2010.html

This project has been terminated since the format is too limited
to be useful, and DocBook
provides already an _xml_-_base_d syntax to produce complete man
pages.





This is not exactly one project of mine... it's a mere
autotoolization of a package that is distributed with Apple
MacOSX and Darwin, _xml_2man.





This tools allow to create a man page starting from an _xml_ file
using lib_xml_2.





The autotooled version is tested on Linux and FreeBSD, it should
compile on MacOSX/Darwin, but there it is already provided by
the system itself.





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