@sharoonthomas > Another example is the 'certification' of modules. The most recent being the > certification of magento openerp integration, where customers pay hefty to > openerp to give them a certified version of a community module (supposedly > with better quality). I assume the module then gets added to > openobject-addons (a branch closed for commit rights to openerp SA employees) > and also made available on ODOO. (Note:This has not happened yet with magento > erpconnect). The customer gets the module, the original developers continue > the development (supposedly without quality) but the customer is not allowed > to get the new improvements because its not certified. He has to use > certified legacy code, because his maintenance contract is otherwise invalid? > Well, is this free as in freedom? I would prefer to call this highest order > restriction! a clear violation of GPL?
I completely agree with you on this, as I noted absuletly the same - just as the certification idea appeared. It seems, that all of that is going to happen. This is clear policy of lockin. And the freedom in this case is "as in pocket". Fabien are depressing transparent circulation of information (in case of updates of software and copyright statements), providing community and general public with bended truth and disinformation. Completely ignoring the fundamentals and principles of FOSS. The policy and statements (and their inconsistency) is getting more and more look alike to those from the big old proprietary software corps. Unfortunately general public is unable to follow all the statements and glue them together to find out what is the reality. Still I am pleased that more and more community members are noticing the real situation. @fabien > https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B8I9h53mJ-C_MjkzNThjMDYtMTIyNC00YzViLWI5NzQtYmRmYzIyZDQ3Nzdh&hl=en_GB > You are referring to a nonoperational webpage. And I am really sorry, but your statements are getting more and more unrelated to the real movements. -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=61309#61309 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
