On Saturday 02 December 2006 09:01, Ross Davey wrote: > And dont tell me Horst that the open source community can just have it > run itself; no need for managemenmt, managed development, dedicated Help > Desk staff and project management abilities. I am almost at the point > of just letting you try.
I couldn't (I have proven to be an extremely poor manager), and I wouldn't (I haven't even got the time to do my own things properly), and you make it all sound so artificially complicated. I am not asking you to change your business model, your workflow or anything else All you would have to do is make the open source community happy would be to make the version control system your programmers must be using anyway available read-only "live", instead of maintaining two separate source trees which only generates extra work for you and can't really serve any purpose if what you say is right. Availability of most recent source code is all we were asking for, plus not being locked out from participation in message exchange when not yielding to compulsory registration - the idiosyncracies of your registration code enforcement etc could then be made irrelevant by those who feel inclined. You spent money on lawyers giving you the wrong advice because they don't understand what it is about, and you ended up with the licensing model we suggested right from day one after wasting much time and money on procrastinating. WHY? Isn't it good enough if humble companies like even IBM use that kind of licensing? You will see that the same will happen to source code availability and registration codes one day - eventually you will have to do it, or Argus will die. You just won't know it yet, and in the process of procrastinating you miss out on wonderful opportunities. You were very happy to accept the windfall created by our "missionary" work in favour of Argus, yet you keep snubbing our advice Here is my offer: if you release Argus in a proper open source way (that is, "real time" availability of most recent source code and no compulsory licensing), and I sign up for a binding 3 years maintenance contract with you guys at the going rate. Money is NOT the issue for us - you just still don't realize it. Freedom is. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
