Frontier 10.0.a1

Dave Winer has finally released Frontier as open source software, under the GPL no less! There was a time (late ‘90s) when I was a hardcore Frontier user; at the time there seemed to be no better tool for managing large and complicated websites for the price (it was free as in beer). Eventually I moved on to different kinds of projects that Frontier couldn’t manage as well, so I abandoned the platform. I still have quite a few sites stored as fatpages that I’m tempted to dig out of old CDs to try out on the new version.

Making it open source means that Frontier will probably mutate to take on a wider variety of tasks than Dave ever imagined. Here’s to a long and prosperous life for this great piece of software!

September 29, 2004 | Archived in Software