[Web-erp-developers] How Does Open Source Dovetail with the Commercial World

[Daintrees <p.d...@pa...>]

>
> By the way, we may have our first webERP customer.  We'll know within a
few
> weeks.  It's being readied to show them.  We'll be doing some industry
> specific modifications for their industry in order to impress them ;)
>
Brilliant! Good luck with this.

Thanks for the background Steve .... maybe I take this stuff too lightly
since it is a hobby for me - I don't need to make money from this - of
course it would be nice but I do get pleasure from talking to you folks and
the developing of the project. My wife thinks I'm stupid giving it away!
Probably am, but I take NO joy in marketing I am a product person/engineer
at heart - accountant by trade..... definitely NOT a marketeer. As you point
out commercial software is about marketing and first impressions. I'm not so
interested in this as you know and my actions in releasing web-erp as open
source does have the potential to make life difficult for commercial
accounting software businesses. I'm not a deliberate spoiler. Its just that
I spent a long time making something I am proud of (ego must be the driver)
and think it is useful. I would much rather it be used than rot on my hard
drive as just one massive waste of time.

Open Source does seem like a spanner in the works of commercial software
activity and probably tends to devalue the skills of professional
programmers like yourself. For this I am sorry. However, I don't object to
others making money off my efforts with a bit of marketing on their part - I
just think I deserve a right of refusal to include any improvements into it.


Phil