Re: They've noticed that weird phenomenon, "free open source"!
Robin Sheat <[email protected]>
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Kathinka schreef op vr 08-02-2013 om 10:47 [+1300]: > I'm wondering, will Silverstripe be able to sell its product all > locked up and untouchable like a MS product? Or does open source have > to stay alive even when someone builds and sells a packaged product > using it? > It's an open source product, and for a job the size of what they've got, you're never selling them a boxed product anyway. You're selling them the service of getting their content into it, developing customisations (which tend to be released to everyone when complete), maintaining it, training, and so forth. It's 100% compatible with how free software is supposed to work. I know, because that's what I do all day with Koha :) Robin. _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/