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SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source?
darthcamaro writes "SugarCRM markets itself as a professional open source company and this week released version 6 of its Sugar platform. But the main new feature is a new user interface that isn't available to users of the community version — it's only available to paying users. No they don't claim to be open core either, they claim it's all open source, even if you have to pay for it. '"Open source doesn't mean free and was never really meant to mean free," Martin Schneider, senior director of communications at SugarCRM, said. "Open source runs through everything we do, it enables us to be transparent and gives customers more power. We are an open source company and it's why we're better than proprietary companies."'"
EVERYTHING about open source requires that the owner give it out to everyone. If it is not free of cost and restrictions, it is not open source.
So what you're saying is, open source is pirate friendly?
Guys, it's a KDawson story, which means the "summary" - such that it is - is guaranteed to be misleading and possibly completely wrong.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Thanks for quoting chapter-and-verse from the slashbot textbook, but you are still an idiot.
There's a shitload of "open source" web apps out there which have some totally half-assed "community version" which is under an open source licence. Of course this is only put out there as a demo to tempt one to test the product. If you are foolish enough to actually deploy the "community edition", you will quickly find that the open source version is broken, missing features, your boss will be screaming at you and eventually you will have to suck it up to buy the "enterprise edition" that actually works as advertised.
Or, if you turn to the "community", you will only find a group of people on the vendor forums bitching about the same issues you have, usually with no resolution. You will not find a bugzilla, SVN, or anything else to help you resolve these issues.
This is a valid business strategy because the Slashdot POV is mentally retarded, and any company who puts a Slashbot into a decision-making position deserves to be raped for maximum financial advantage. It's not like you dildos will actually fork the code and do anything useful with it, so why not take advantage of your moronic ideological naivete?