I would like to react on this: << Patrice is somewhat unique in that he has been trying, for some time, to reinvent the wheel and make it "free". It's possible he may succeed, as did Linus Torvalds, however, it's the Red Hat guys who made the money and whose OS is used by "professional/business" systems. Linus, I'm sure, sleeps peacefully and well, no pager for him ;) >>
My goal is indeed to make free software AND to provide added-value services that can be sold. I want to get rich, even if it implies the usage of a pager ;-) As I have already tried to explain, I think that the EDI community is making money with the wrong things, and the fact that you need to pay for the X12 standard is only a little symptom of a bigger disease :-/ >From a technical point of view, EDI is not difficult, nor complex, but I have >sometimes the impression that the perception of EDI being difficult, complex >and then expensive is maintained by the EDI community :-/ On the other hand, I do see some guys being honest and recognizing this fact. For instance, I liked reading this one: << We can all be honest: it is a cryptic language that has fed many children of the people who have mastered that language. >> ;-) - http://www.energyservicesgroup.net/markets/unpealing-the-edi-onion-part-1/ Still, making the correct mapping, the one that will indeed map the source system data model to the destination system data model, is the REAL difficult part of the work. And since "it is impossible for human beings to model the same reality in the same data model" (my conjecture), we will continue to do it for a long time ;-) /Patrice - http://babelabout.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
