On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jesse Ephraim
<JEphraim_at_ci.southlake.tx.us> wrote:
>>Please don't tar "commercial vendors" as being
>>against open source: some of us develop, distribute
>>and support open source software for libraries.
>
> Yes, some of you do. I said "often promoted by," not "promoted by all."
>
>>And please don't perpetuate the myth that commercial support
>>is not available for open source software.
>
> That is true.
>
> When I say "commercial vendors" in this sense, I am generally talking
> about companies that create (from scratch), sell, and maintain
> proprietary ILSes, not those who are working with open source packages.
Just FYI, the preferred phrase in that context would be 'proprietary vendors'.
Those of us providing commercial open source software tend to be pretty
sensitive about the distinction ;-).
Cheers,
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Received on Mon Sep 08 2008 - 13:00:41 EDT