<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:00 PM Jonathan Moules <<a href="mailto:jonathan-lists@lightpear.com">jonathan-lists@lightpear.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Andrea,</p>
<p>As always, I agree with you, but one thing:</p>
<p>> After all, the GPL license is really clear on the matter:
"THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE
COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION" Throwing
one's frustration at the developers that shared code under the
above conditions, while somehow understandable, really does not
make sense and helps nobody.</p>
<p>To be fair you get the exact same conditions if you throw six
digit sums to the proprietary vendors too.</p></div></blockquote><div>Yes indeed, completely agree.</div><div>I kind of see an unfortunate tendency to repetition in users, a sort of "continuity" if you like:</div><div><ul><li>"I pay for proprietary software, hence I'll pay for support and fixing" (and agree that getting a fix is really hard, towards "mission impossible" levels, with large vendors)</li><li>"I did not pay for open source software, hence I won't pay for support or bug fixing (let alone use my super-precious personal time to help the community in other ways)". And this is where I get mad :-D</li></ul><div>Cheers</div></div><div>Andrea</div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">==</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit <a href="http://goo.gl/it488V" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/it488V</a> for more information.
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