@anajuaristi, @@loops,
> Next time you need to raise equity, why not turning to the community [...] > For sure... I think there would be a lot of people who would invest on > OpenERP. That would be really a "rule breaker" way of financing. Notice that's the way Google did. I can't remember exactly how much, but lot's of their share have been sold to happy individual early adopters. And I'm among them (not that early unfortunately but I felt it was safer than the bank/gold at some point those last years). Yes, I believe they would have raised money that way, the issue is they would hardly have make 3 Millions at once in little time to dedicate on this... At the same time, I' pretty sure the fund raising was pretty urgent. Tiny was starting to struggle with low suboptimal quality integration, non sustainable maintenance offer, non mature Odoo and non reusable new modules while having no resources to simply merge good community contribs, watch at Tryton, refactor the core, support the partner eco-system... It couldn't have lasted very long that way (before Tryton yes, but no now that they let it develop so much). Something like 3 weeks before they finally set up a community team, a lot of partners where calling themselves speaking about a common integrator branch that would eventually evolve into a viable fork if Tiny where not to merge the good stuff of it we would need, so time was counted. Still, I agree that 50% of that tension itself was actually a result of the few smart guys from Tiny like Fabien being exactly busy at selling some dream to investors rather than move the product forward... Cruel world... ------------------------ Raphaël Valyi CEO and OpenERP consultant at http://www.akretion.com -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51425#51425 -------------------- m2f --------------------
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