[opencms-dev] [ANN] Calendar Module now available on sourceforge.net

[Rene Hinojosa]

Greetings Achim,

My apologies to you if my last email about open source development 
seemed to be directed to you. They were not. I know you have been very 
active on this list and made lots of contributions.

Rene

On Apr 22, 2004, at 1:12 PM, Joachim Arrasz wrote:

> Hi Rene,
>
>> Achim is correct that the module is only usable for version 5.0.x. 
>> This
>>  doesn't mean that when 6.0 is released or stable that this project
>> can't be updated. It is up to the community to figure out what 
>> features
>>  are needed and what needs to be updated.
>
> surely they can, but actually only a few do.
>
>> Open Source projects are meant to have developers work together on a
>> common goal. Sharing ideas and code benefits the community as whole. 
>> If
>>  you use it and improve it, give it back to the community. Everyone
>> benefits. This is very idea of open source development and the GPL.
>
> That`s absolutely correct, nothing to say against. Im not sure if you
> think you should flame me, but it seems to. Nevertheless this then 
> should
> be a private thing, shouldnt it?
> We followed the deelopment from Opencms now since version 4.4 (not so
> long, sure) and in this time we remarked that there are lot of 
> companies
> how works with Opencms and none of them gives a bit back to the whole
> community.
> I got hundreds of mails with questions and responded lot of times to 
> each
> of them. We built this Forum as Knowledgebase. But we never got a 
> donate
> or anything else. So my Boss decided correctly that it`s better to make
> the new  modules lot priced.
> That`s the decision and i think it`s a good one if the modules are so
> lowpriced. If no onw buys them, no one will develop more features for 
> it.Opensource is a very fine thing as long as the community works.
>
> Just my opinion to your statement.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Joachim Arrasz
>
>
>
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