On 21 December 2016 at 11:49, Nathan Curulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Chris, > > Just for the record, I have never taken the same absolutist approach to this > as you have and have never painted myself as doing so. When I do a demo or > speak to a library I always say that open is great if it works for you, but > if other tools out there work better than go ahead and use them! If I told > libraries that they would be ethically obligated to use open everything all > the time then we wouldn’t have any customers and the community would be about > 1,000 libraries fewer. There are not always open options and most of us are > forced to look at things practically more so than ethically, especially when > dealing with something like software. We are not talking about religion here. > By your rationale anyone in the community who uses a Mac to code on Koha is a > hypocrite and I don’t agree with that. So in short, Im not walking any walk > that I don’t talk :) I guess I look at this project from more of a practical > point of view rather than an ethical one because I don’t have the luxury to > do the latter. > > >
HI All First of all let me apologise Nate, in no way did I mean my email to be an attack on you, or anyone, personally. If it came across that way, I can only apologise. What I meant is the project should walk the walk, individuals, libraries and individual organisations can decide for themselves, I don't presume to tell them. But I do think the project should be as open as possible. We extol (as a project .. not talking about individuals again) the virtues of Open on the koha-community.org (no vendor lock in etc). That's the talk we (as a project) talk, and that I would like us to walk. Interesting side note, there was no open option for a library system before Koha. So sometimes you do just have to build things too :) Chris _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
