Re: They've noticed that weird phenomenon, "free open source"!
Kathinka <[email protected]>
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On 8 February 2013 11:34, Robin Sheat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > So when someone works in an office/dept/school that has this product, if they want to look under the bonnet and maybe tweak it someway that improves on or adds to what it does, this is still possible? Keeping the win-win-win chain of OS, yes? Kathinka. > _______________________________________________ > DunLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug > DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/ > -- IMPORTANT: If you forward this e-mail please delete the forwarding history which includes my e-mail address. It's a courtesy to all of us who may not wish to have our e-mail addresses sent all over the world. Thank you. "A liberty is not the same as a right, because the latter entails a reciprocal obligation on someone else's part." Thomas Szasz _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/