Re: [SL] Mailing list issue

[<sql...@li...>]

This is why most of the larger OSS companies have a free and open- 
sourced version which has enough bells and whistles to be interesting  
but they hold back some modules that their actual target market would  
require in production.  (The source for these modules is usually  
still available as well but for paid subscribers only and obviously  
not re-distributable!)
    They really get the best of both worlds this way with OSS  
developers on the "team" often contributing to the non-OSS modules as  
well.  There have been a few cases where specific non-OSS modules  
were recreated by external OSS developers, (a good example is  
Zimbra's backup function or some of KnowledgeTree's document  
importing tools), but for the most part it's a model that works very  
well.


Thanks,

Michael



On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:12 AM, sql...@li...  
wrote:

If a GPL violation was involved, i'm sure everyone would agree that  
using the
legal system would have been more then appropriate.

If there wasnt, well thats just part of the exposure of being open.  
It is a
risk we all have to deal with.


> Good luck!
>
> You think SQL-Ledger is unapproachable, you've got another thing  
> coming.
>
> Anytime there is just a slight annoyance some will jump the  
> conclusion and
> figure its time to jump ship and use a fork.
>
> LX-ERP was forked back in 2003, at that time it was actually an  
> advanced
> unreleased version of SQL-Ledger 2.2 The fork is based on V2.3 In  
> other
> words Linet Service really screwed us when we did development work for
> them.
>
> a) they got paid for the development from their customer, pretty  
> good I
> would say
> b) they took this newly developed version and created a fork, lx-erp
> c) where is the GPL when you need it?
>
> Nice, eh?
>
> Dieter
>




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