THINGS TO UNDERSTAND * you will save time, dollars and hassels using Glean to represent your ideas rather than trying to DIY * supporting glean supports tradelink.org development * it costs far less to support glean users than tradelink, as such no support or assistance is provided to open source users. * users who contribute code back to tradelink.org can join an open source mailing list to share patches and discuss improvements. IN SHORT * glean is better for everybody, the vast majority of the time and better for vast majority all of the time. * you can't believe in open source without supporting it, which means using glean. * if you're super hard core and want to do awesome OSS stuff, go for it but share your results back. IF YOU GET IT AND WANT TO CONTINUE : https://code.google.com/p/tradelink/wiki/TradeLinkBuild MORE INFORMATION : * http://faq.tradelink.org * glean user questions http://community.tradelink.org * private contributor forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tradelink-users