Re: Was Community-Driven OFBiz a Mistake? (was: Re: OpenERP fund raising)

2010-02-27 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Matt, a very short answer to your (too long) post: you seem to believe that you are in a position to teach to the core committers that they have to invest more in order to make their past investments in OFBiz profitable in the future; the reality is that the core committers, and the many peopl

Re: Was Community-Driven OFBiz a Mistake? (was: Re: OpenERP fund raising)

2010-02-26 Thread Matt Warnock
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 10:50 -0700, David E Jones wrote: > Matt, > > You might be interested to hear that early in the life of OFBiz, and > after technology investing recovered from the lull in 2000-2001, I was > approached by a number of investors who wanted to turn OFBiz into a > commercial op

Re: Was Community-Driven OFBiz a Mistake? (was: Re: OpenERP fund raising)

2010-02-25 Thread Jacques Le Roux
From: "David E Jones" So here we go... we've got a community-driven project and people want it to be a commercial project. I've been pushing for years for community-driven software and trying to attract developers to help build this thing, and for some history about that and concepts related t

Was Community-Driven OFBiz a Mistake? (was: Re: OpenERP fund raising)

2010-02-25 Thread David E Jones
Matt, You might be interested to hear that early in the life of OFBiz, and after technology investing recovered from the lull in 2000-2001, I was approached by a number of investors who wanted to turn OFBiz into a commercial open source project instead of a community-driven one (which would re