[Essentialdata-discuss] My status

[Dave O. <dj...@co...>]

All,

I wanted to let you all know that my ability to work on Essential Data 
long-term is up in the air.  Although I promised that I would support it 
personally when I left my old company, my old company (ASC) has sent my 
new company (db4objects) a letter indicating that if I work on Essential 
Data, they will sue db4objects.

db4objects is negotiating to avert this reality.  Of course, I cannot 
comment on this negotiation.  If that negotiation is not successful, 
then the community will have to pick up Essential Data and move it forward.

Just yesterday I received two offers of help with Essential Data, offers 
that I greatly appreciate.

So I'm actually not that worried about the health of Essential Data. 
It's mostly debugged now (especially given the patches I was sent 
yesterday) and I think that there are enough people interested in it 
that the community will be able to move it forward if that becomes 
necessary.

I'll let you all know how things go.  If it becomes clear that our 
negotiations will not succeed then we will discuss what to do next.

Let's hope it doesn't work out that way.  :-)

Ethically, I felt I needed to tell everybody what is up so you can make 
your own plans accordingly.


Best regards,


Dave Orme
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