I think the key in your difficulty to communicate is in this statement:
"In my experience open source is about..."
It seems you confuse your experience with the truth. We all have different experiences and points of view.
You say: "My complaint is that you come to this forum and try to convince us that you are open source."
I came to this forum because I noticed that Jen published the interview she did to me about Feng Office. And then I saw the comments and I responded.
But I did feel I have to explain that the Feng Office Community Edition has always been and will remain GPL. And I explained to you that the Professional Edition adds a set of features on top which the Corporate IT Customers that Brian Prentice talks to in his article find easier to justify paying for. They find it hard to justify the contract of services that we worked very hard to make unnecessary (support, installation, etc.). They have a hard time justifying donations (and we never felt donations are a good Open Source business model). That is the way in which this market (Collaboration Platforms, Project Management) works.
So, different experiences, different products, and different markets lead to different business models.
I would love to keep on discussing Open Source software and Open Source business. But I'll let you have the last word until you hold on the offensive.
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Tarus,
I think the key in your difficulty to communicate is in this statement:
"In my experience open source is about..."
It seems you confuse your experience with the truth. We all have different experiences and points of view.
You say: "My complaint is that you come to this forum and try to convince us that you are open source."
I came to this forum because I noticed that Jen published the interview she did to me about Feng Office. And then I saw the comments and I responded.
But I did feel I have to explain that the Feng Office Community Edition has always been and will remain GPL. And I explained to you that the Professional Edition adds a set of features on top which the Corporate IT Customers that Brian Prentice talks to in his article find easier to justify paying for. They find it hard to justify the contract of services that we worked very hard to make unnecessary (support, installation, etc.). They have a hard time justifying donations (and we never felt donations are a good Open Source business model). That is the way in which this market (Collaboration Platforms, Project Management) works.
So, different experiences, different products, and different markets lead to different business models.
I would love to keep on discussing Open Source software and Open Source business. But I'll let you have the last word until you hold on the offensive.