RE: Shop-Administration via Web...

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On Wed, 19 May 1999 22:10:48   Cory Trese wrote:
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>I spoke in haste.  I apologize to all involved parties.
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>On Wed, 19 May 1999 lee@netguide.net wrote:
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>> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Cory J Trese wrote:
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>> > ******    message to minivend-users from Cory J Trese <digital@specialty-books.com>     ******
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>> > It may be irrelevant and unnecessary, but...I really think it's
>> > offensive when people take the work of others (mike heines esp) and
>> > build a product around it to sell for a profit.  That's shifty.
>> 
>>   This is also irrelevant, but something I feel necessary since you took
>> the opportunity to cast aspersions upon Jason Korkin's character in a
>> public list (I presume you were refering to his administration product -
>> my apologies if you weren't).  You should have voiced your opinion of him
>> and what he does in a private email.
>> 
>>   But let's get this straight; what Jason Korkin has done is no different
>> to auxiliary services and products that spring up around other industries.
>> I mean, how dare those bastard car washers and manufacturers of car
>> cleaning products profit off of the invention of the motor car! ;P  He
>> hasn't taken great slabs of Mike Hein's code and turned it into a similar
>> product and sold it for himself.
>> 
>>   Besides, (and the reason why I am springing to his defence), Jason
>> Korkin has freely contributed a lot of advice and solutions to problems on
>> this list.  He has most definitely "given back" to the minivend community.
>> 
>>   I'll shut up now. :)
>> 
>>   Regards,
>>           Lee.
>> 


Hmm, if I may add my 0.02 cents of comments here...

I think neither has Cory Tracy spoken hastily, (just
spoken his mind, which I think he is perfectly well allowed to do on this list), nor does Jason Korkin has to tell people what is off-topic and what not.

In addition neither Jason Korkin has done anything
shifty or questionable in writing and selling his commercial product, nor is the whole discussion relevant. One person voices his moral opinion towards helping to support a GNU project Mike Heins has initiated, the other about his legal rights to write plug-in modules.

As I learned from Mike Heins, I do read the archives
and docs and if you would do too, you would find that
Mike Heins himself did answer this question quite
nicely and clearly on this list. Happy searching. 

On top of this, I like to mention that

1. MaxiVend is a nice product and very well worth
   becoming a customer of MiniVend (you did not
   think I would miss that good an opportunity to play
   MiniVend fan, do you 8-))

2. Concerning any legal twylight zones, when a plug-in
   is considered a separate unit of code not bound to
   the MiniVend license and when it uses too much of
   the existing MiniVend code, so that it might viewed    as a module not viable without MiniVend and as such
   the question of being sellable code has to be
   examined, is certainly an interesting case for a       lawyer to decide on that, but surely isn't worth       paying a lawyer for to find out. 8-)

   You might all be aware that, legally, the only         person who is perfectly well allowed to change the     license of any upcoming versions of MiniVend is Mike    Heins.
   
   Are you sure your commercial versions will work with
   the future releases ? Is it worth the trouble
   NOT to support Mike Heins' steadfast commitment to
   his own open source code project and GPL license ?

   I would think the only person allowed to tell me
   to take this subject off the list is Mike Heins.

   So, I am waiting to hear Zeus' anger thundering
   down the Olymp. 8-)

   Oh Kassandra tell us, if silence is Zeus' answer, 
   is it the silence before the storm or his benevolent
   yawn of boredom he feels us earthlings                 quarreling about such trivialities . 8-)

   You gurus out there, if you have something which
   can handle administration of 500 000 record product.
   asc files via the Web in less than hour of 
   processing time, let me hear. 
   Just that you know I will immediately forward such     nice thing to  Mike Heins to give him a chance to      have a look at your wonderful code, the way he had     given you all a chance to look at his.

   Have a good day you all.. and 
   Cheers. 
   Birgitt Funk
    
   (A woman can't be that fresh on the net without
   having had a beer, at least one. Are you all
   forgiving me having had two ?.... Prost).




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