At the end of the day, we all have to support ourselves. No matter how interested I am in a project, if work calls, my donated time takes a back seat. That happened with our own plans for Active Collab which we won’t launch until the 4th quarter.

I think Active Collab made a mistake in their approach. They didn’t really innovate and they didn’t really address the community they had already built when making the change. They could have left it open and offered hosted or enterprise versions. I’ve got a number of ideas on how they could innovate but I’ll hold that until we announce our roadmap (or decide to give up).

There are a lot of project management services on the web. I thought the main benefit of Active Collab was it’s free, open, community approach. They took that away without offering much in it’s place. I don’t blame them. I just think it was a mistake.

Do you still think (at this time and age), that charging for such a service is wrong? Almost everyone is doing it right now, even the new, emerging PM tools out there stating they will never charge for their services eventually will (IMO).