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@Mith;
We agreed to disagree on this subject in private and I feel we should now least try honour and to keep to that agreement. We both just have opposing arguments on the same side of the coin. I see no reason why we both should continue with what I believe was just a very small part of the bigger picture here.
Everyone else:
Fine we can keep hammering at the same subject avoiding the 'real' issues here at Xoops.org. For me, the reality is that the WF-Projects teams affairs are more important than some of the issues over here. But when 'these issues' directly affect what happens at WF-Projects, I have to take notice and act on them.
My post on the 'whole' was not about whether it was wrong for Brash to hire someone to make modifications to someones else module and then charge for it. Brash is quite entitled to do what he is doing, it is his 'Intellectual property' and I have no problems with him trying to make money to recover his costs and with the method he is using, good luck to you Brash. I really wish him well on this matter and he has my full support anytime.
@Brash:
Brash please seek legal advice over this matter for the country you live in. As the laws do change to country to country and if I am wrong I will state I am wrong, Simple.
The real, and what I believe more pressing argument of my post was the protection of a developers work, the right for a developer and XOOPS to work commercially side by side in an open source world. This to me is far more stimulating and rewarding subject for Xoops, developers, open source users and the business community as a whole.
Seriously, I see it over and over again within these forums, the real issues which are more important all around are sidelined by petty squabbles and nondescript arguments that benefit no one, either in the short or long term.
Come on, everyone here seems to be focusing on one point in a post that really should have started a healthy debate in all area's of development. The development cycle does not just stop at who will try and be the next Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds or who is ripping off who.
Scott