I have seen many FOSS communities (Compiere, Adempiere, OpenBravo, JBoss) but not any where you're asked to purchase support to have your question answered. E.g. OpenBravo might not have so many features but they don't tell forum users to purchase their contract to get questions answered. If they don't have time for non-paying members, at least best they do is keep quiet. So, people still feel welcome.
Am sure you can get a compromise between free product (FOSS), earning revenue from support and growing a community around the product. There are examples of many projects that have achieved this. As opposed to proprietary products, long term success of a FOSS project depends community. It's this community that Tiny needs to court. JBoss successfully did it. Since inception Adempiere have been doing this. Why not OpenERP? A good product is not enough. You need the community, as much as the community needs you. Mugoma, Yengas. [email protected] wrote: > [quote="okomba"] > Many unanswered questions (some very trivial) do not augur very well for the > project. And it's ridiculous to ask people to buy support to have their > questions answered. This is not the best way to grow a community. > [/quote] > It's ridiculous to tell other people they are ridiculous for providing you > products and services for free - even if they take a while because their > trying to service their paying customers! Please show some respect. > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > -- > http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33953#33953 > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Tinyerp-users mailing list > http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
