I acknowledged very clearly in my post the fact that SAP company has been the entire development team for SAPDB. Nothing says it has to stay that way, however.
There is nothing unfair or ungrateful about this. And it IS playing by the rules--the rules SAP chose when they released SAPDB under its original licenses. Matt On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 00:40, PcgScrapAddy wrote: > Jesus Christ! ... can't you people read? > > It is not a charity event! If you want to develop commercially then, in the > words of Jesse James, "Pay up suka" otherwise release your code and all is > well. > > We all have very fine DBs in 7.3 and 7.4, if you don't want to play by the > rules then stick with them, otherwise be prepared to give a little back, not > much, just a little. Personally I can't wait to see what occurs from this > collaboration as I believe the effort will yield a very fine product. > > Some on this list are just as bad as MS but in reverse ... they want premium > software for nothing to make money off of but give nothing in return. I have > absolutely no problem in telling my company to pay $500 bucks for a > commercial license considering the closest thing costs 20 times that. > > Just my $0.02 > -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
