Re: D3--importing accounts when they forgot to SAVE with the (A option

Hi Tony,

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> I've mentioned this trend in this forum before but MV VARs don't seem
> interested in taking advantage of the Open Source marketing spin. Of

This affirmation of the intellectual honesty of the MV VAR community is
reassuring. Or are they simply leaving DAAWOL (Dishonesty As A Way Of
Life) to the professionals - the US Gov't?

> course we all know this isn't GPL, but the source _is_ open for the

Do we? Why then do we intentionally blur accepted meanings -
capitalization and all (see below)?

> end-users, which is all the average business owner is looking for
> these days - and better than keeping the source in escrow. So who
> cares how "open" it is?

Anyone who cares about their business and the integrity of their
vendors?

> If an end-user agrees to terms (whether an MV
> VAR's or one of the 20+ open source licenses) then for all intents and
> purposes all of this code is equally Open Source. Another way to
> phrase all this is that Open Source does not really imply the GPL or
> similar licenses, even though many people tend to think or assume that
> it does.

'many people' being virtually everyone who has ever been in close
proximity to any kind of computing device? If you would care to invest
a few moments in researching this opinion:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

<more 'spin' snipped>

Again in the interest of accuracy,
-Tom

Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job.

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