> Paul Aviles wrote:
> > Michael, I am not saying you are bad, heck no.
> >
> > I am only stating something that has happened in the past.
> It is just history and common sense. Take any of the projects
> that have started as Open Source and spin out to commercial
> and you have seen a great deal of the community leaving.
> Take Sugar, Compiere and Open Bravo as two perfect examples.
> Once they announced that they were separating the projects
> into free and paid they lost their momentum. Compiere forked
> into OB and Adempiere now and Sugar has forked so many times
> it can be considered now a spoon.
> >
> > The big difference at least there is that they are managed
> under one company umbrella. With BQ that never happened, so
> we now have different people doing different things. Once
> again, I am not putting the finger nor blaming anyone.
> >
> > Now, I am not the voice for BQ at all. However as a
> community having someone with vested personal interest does
> complicate things for the "community", that's all.
> >
> > Besides the obvious differences, are you and others going
> to include the roadmap for your own products into BQ? If not,
> then there is nothing wrong with that, but then lets called
> it a fork lets all be happy. Then we can I guess agree to
> some common grounds and move forward.
> >
> > Don't make more of my comments because there is nothing else behind.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> Paul,
> I have been dealing with BQ since it migrated from the
> Raq550. Many contributories on this list have had their own
> agenda as how to handle this as an open source project, but
> as a group this has always stayed strong to-gater! I feel
> that people like Michael or Brian should be looked at as, ...
> contributers.... then "gainers".... from this
> project....lets take a second to look at what they have
> contributed to this project with out gain.....my 2 canadian cents
>
> ---\
> Best Regards,
> Jon McCauley
I hardly see how we could spare Michael's, Brian's and other "commercial"
guys help, no way.
Another thing: I predict that BQ will become one day commercial, while
maintaining free open-source core. :)
So, I don't see any problem, while It is agreed that code will be released
for free.
Seems usual stuff, isn't it?
Arthur