> First, as I understand it, the Tiny company develops about 90% of the code > used in OpenERP. If that is the case, then forking the code would not make > much sense, since - apparently - nobody but the Tiny company wants to > maintain the code base.
Just take a look at http://www.tryton.org > If the Tiny company fully publishes all of their modules, then it seems to > me, that the company would lose it's competitive advantage over anybody else > that wanted to do the same thing. From a business standpoint, I am not sure > if that makes sense. > I don't think that Tiny publishes all of the modules. Just the ones that would be useful by someone. Anyone can offer services based on OpenERP (it doesn't matter if you are a partner or not), however it is their tool and if anyone can drive with it as fast as they can... well he deserves all the success, but usually they are several steps ahead of the rest of us. > Then again, I have noticed that many (if not all) of the strongest foss > projects have money behind those projects. For example, the Mozilla > corporation is largely supported by google, and of course, RedHat is a > for-profit company. Debian, Drupal, Joomla, PostgreSQL, the Linux kernel, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, KDE, X.org... and many others do not have an "owner" but they are completely community supported, even if some companies contribute developers to those projects. In the few years that I have been working with TinyERP, OpenERP and the Tiny company I have found that they really believe in free software and community and that's the key to their success. Regards, Pedro -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openerp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25172#25172 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
