Dear Meir, I fully understand what you said. I am in North America and I work in a "giant" hospital that uses commercial software costing millions of dollars.
However, your line of argument follows the "the end justifies the means" way of thinking. You see, it is not much about the money but the alleged violation of the original license. You seem to have chosen to look the other way. But this is an old discussion never unique to care2x. This has never been answered properly and never will be because it is up to an individual's decision. Like what I said before, it is your choice. If one wants to make money out of care2x, he can do it, why not. Just don't exploit, violate and abuse the license agreement. If you dont like the agreement, then don't touch care2x. Its plain and simple. Let us end this topic here and see what happens in the future. Oh by the way, don't think that I don't like money. I do, in fact I love tons of money. I just dont violate and abuse the original concept of the license to make me rich. Sincerely, Elpidio Meir Livneh wrote: > > Dear Elpidio > > You have to understand that in certain places, license fee is marginal > in the decision making process. Functionality and “Total Cost of > Ownership” play a much bigger role. > In North America, a “no license fee” label has zero appeal, unless it > is attached to a very good, well supported product. Care2x falls short > in both perspective. > The Open Source products that managed to catch in North America, are > mostly, those products that are distributed and supported by a > commercial company (e.g. Redhat) or were developed as “commercial open > source” to begin with (e.g. SugerCRM). > In order for care2x to grow and succeed it has to take a similar > approach, it has to become a “commercial open source” product, America > & European customers have to pay a moderate “license fee” for it, > otherwise it is destined to die. > I frankly believe the mycare2 guys are doing the right thing > > meir > _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
