hello just a few points and I won't like to repeat this again and again for waisting bandwidth of the members of this list. 1, such discussions should move to the gnukhata mailing lists. 2, Please look at the source code and look at the copyright notices. Also look at the official web site and Please make a judgement whether the software is free or not. I mean does it hert to make a software GPL v3? 3, We did not have a mail server for a long time and now we have it. So just for keeping with the rules of free software and *not* proprietory, we had to start a mailing list any ways and we used googlegroups and most of the interesting stuff is lying there. We have off late good constructive feedback from testers (Thanks Mehul and others).
and last point, I believe those of you who are really serious about the project's success, Please help us out with the things needed such as helping to build packages in deb and rpm and provide some accounting domain for more severe testing. Again the source code is GPL V3 so feel free to download and check it.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 13:27 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:22:08 Arun Khan wrote:
totally disagree with this. My point is that this software has been under development for a year or so - and has been developed using the proprietary model. I looked at the mailing list archives and do not see one year's discussion there. The strength of free software is not that the code is released, rather it is the fact that the *full* development takes place transparently in public and the public can share in it from the word go. --
Right and IIRC, the point had been made earlier in the discussion. The project's developer mailing list is the forum; what is there or not there is water under the bridge.
Moving on, one can either keep viewing the "half glass of water" as half empty or as half full and an opportunity to fill it with one's experience and mentoring.
I wonder why Indians tend to get defensive when faced with constructive criticism? You would think I am an enemy of the project. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/