What software do you use to run the site? Meaning shopping cart software?
From what I understand, all of the storefront is a custom in-house solution.
I could very well be wrong, but I believe this to be correct.
So I assume its open source thats not open source? Or is it not open source…hmmm… Be interesting to hear from someone who works for sparkfun.
Once upon a time, it was osCommerce. Some (not much) of that code and database schema lingers on; everything else is in-house development or a GPLed third-party library. In licensing terms, if we ever publish, it’ll be GPL, since it’s a fairly straightforward derivative.