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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1107722" data-attributes="member: 114717">Comodo products are not lucrative. They are what is called &quot;loss leaders.&quot; Melih gives them away for free or charges very low subscription rates. That means he is selling them at a loss.There are no dedicated Comodo developer teams! There never has been.Here are the facts about Comodo&#039;s security products:[ICODE]The fundamental issue with the product is a very simple one to understand: Melih owns the product, it generates virtually no revenue, and since Day 1 he has spent millions of his own money to subsidize the product and give it away. Well, he&#039;s not willing to spend any more on the product other than to keep it alive. There is no dedicated development team for the source code, and that means there is nobody to fix bugs and make the product more polished.Without a revenue stream to support its development, Comodo will never be any better than it is right now. Without bringing in substantial money, it shall always be a 1000-bug, broken feature freeware.[/ICODE]Melih earns virtually all of his money from digital certificates, venture capital and other services. He earns virtually $0 from Comodo security software.Comodo companies do not operate like Avast, Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Norton. I don&#039;t blame people who do not understand this fact. It takes a lot of research to figure it out.Melih has no obligation to fix anything. Anybody that installs Comodo software, the EULA says clearly &quot;You accept this software AS IS and you use it at your own risk.&quot; This is true of every last software EULA out there. So Comodo is no different.All Comodo software, including Xcitium, are very unprofitable for Melih. He loses money on them all. So that means he is personally subsidizing all these software out of his own pocket. CIS\CFW were never profitable. They have always been freeware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1107722, member: 114717"] Comodo products are not lucrative. They are what is called "loss leaders." Melih gives them away for free or charges very low subscription rates. That means he is selling them at a loss. [B]There are no dedicated Comodo developer teams! There never has been.[/B] Here are the facts about Comodo's security products: [ICODE]The fundamental issue with the product is a very simple one to understand: Melih owns the product, it generates virtually no revenue, and since Day 1 he has spent millions of his own money to subsidize the product and give it away. Well, he's not willing to spend any more on the product other than to keep it alive. There is no dedicated development team for the source code, and that means there is nobody to fix bugs and make the product more polished. Without a revenue stream to support its development, Comodo will never be any better than it is right now. Without bringing in substantial money, it shall always be a 1000-bug, broken feature freeware.[/ICODE] Melih earns virtually all of his money from digital certificates, venture capital and other services. He earns virtually $0 from Comodo security software. Comodo companies do not operate like Avast, Bitdefender, Kaspersky and Norton. I don't blame people who do not understand this fact. It takes a lot of research to figure it out. Melih has no obligation to fix anything. Anybody that installs Comodo software, the EULA says clearly "You accept this software AS IS and you use it at your own risk." This is true of every last software EULA out there. So Comodo is no different. [B][I]All Comodo software, including Xcitium, are very unprofitable for Melih.[/I][/B] [I]He loses money on them all.[/I] So that means he is personally subsidizing all these software out of his own pocket. CIS\CFW were never profitable. They have always been freeware. [/QUOTE]

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