Re: [SL] Adding extra custom reports

[Ed W <li...@wi...>]

Dieter

> Maybe someone over at the ledgersmb fork can help you free of charge.
> After all that's what they wanted anyways. So, let's see if they can
> follow through with community support.
>   

Hmm, although it's true that you have helped me on a number of 
occasions, it's also true that you have NOT helped me with a couple of 
enquiries as well.   Some of the things that you have NOT helped me with 
have been when I am enquiring about how to do some development on SL 
which would of course have been submitted back.  It seems that your 
desire to stagnate development by other people than just yourself is the 
reason that few people are submitting changes as much as anything else?  
The few people that can and have offered development support for SL 
appear to now be persona non-gratis on this list, and all in all you 
seem to treat people doing development in a hostile manner and see them 
as threatening your livelyhood (instead of trying to work with them and 
encourage their work and make SL an even better product)

I remind you that I tried to send you one patch and and you didn't even 
acknowledge my email...

I have said on many occasions that I am looking for a decent product 
with paid support, I don't know why you continue to insist that I'm some 
kind of freeloader?  However, the price for that support has to be 
"reasonable" - SL is no match for the heavyweight products like Sage and 
yet your support has been "intermittant" and quotes for work have been 
excessive.

It's not clear to me why you won't accept reasonable levels of 
sponsorship for work which would be contributed back into the SL codebase?

What I mean is that if I requested a change and wanted to own the 
resulting source and for it NOT to be integrated with the public SL then 
I would very much expect to have to pay your full consultancy rates.  
However, if the finished code is integrated with the public SL, then I 
do NOT expect you to quote me top end prices because personally I expect 
to own copyright on any work where I am paying your full time price.

> I could help you too but since time is money and my time seems to be too
> expensive for you try an alternative. East Indian and Russian labor is
> cheap too.
>   

I think you are out of touch with the world Dieter.  For example, a 
number of the products that I sell are hardware devices (telephones) 
where we have the firmware modified and customised to suit our needs - 
this means employing an IT guy to rewrite usually embedded C code to 
suit our specifications.  These are US and UK employees (1st world not 
3rd world) and their prices are a fraction of $12,000 per change.

I'm sorry, but $12,000 for adding one extra text box to the invoice 
screen is premium pricing by anyone's definition.



I remain willing to continue to sponsor SL financially - it's a product 
with excellent potential - I await your suggestions on ways that I can 
achieve this for a budget of less than $12,000

Regards

Ed W