Re: [SL] Mailing list issue

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

And those companies that use OSS as a 'teaser', arent playing by the spirit, 
and personally id never do business with them.

On Monday 13 July 2009 04:19:17 pm sql...@li... 
wrote:
> 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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