[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] open source status

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Thu Jan 21 21:07:07 EST 2010


2010/1/22 Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net>:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:20 -0600, Jesse Ephraim wrote:
>> I heard a rumor today that further updates to official Evergreen
>> releases will only be made available to libraries who do business with
>> Equinox, making it less than a fully open source application.  I have
>> never heard that before, and assume that the rumor is incorrect (perhaps
>> a confusion of Evergreen/Equinox and Koha/LibLime), but wanted to
>> double-check it here.
>
> Wow. That's a crazy rumour. Did it come from a salescritter? They have
> been known to suffer from prevarication-and-wild-distortion syndrome.
>
Sounds like someone trying to say "Look we aren't that bad, others are
doing it too"

Chris


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