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Re: Company Dumps .NET Software, Finds Happiness in Open Source

On Apr 8, 9:25 am, AB <fardblos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2007-04-08, Kier <val...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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> > On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:41:44 -0500, AB wrote:
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> >> On 2007-04-08, Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> >>> On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:59:39 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> >>>>>>>http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22363
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> >>>>>> You are such a fucking liar, Roy.  Jesus.
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> >>>>>> The entire article is about how the PHP based SugarCRM wouldn't work for
> >>>>>> them, so instead they went with a SplendidCRM which *IS* a .NET based
> >>>>>> product.
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> >>>>> According to the title it isn't.  If it is as you say it is, then the
> >>>>> article misled, not Roy.  According to the article title, which isn't
> >>>>> Roys, it claims that SplendidCRM is open source.  But of course deeper
> >>>>> into the article it is ".NET-centric".  It doesn't say it is developed
> >>>>> with ".NET"... just that it is oriented towards the MS platform.
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> >>>> I didn't read the whole article, but I looked at the headline and the closing
> >>>> paragraphs. Erik is nitpicking here, but I'll admit I was unintentionally
> >>>> inaccurate. Lying is /deliberate/. What happened here was /accidental/. And
> >>>> it happens in every news site every now and then, even in Groklaw.
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> >>> You mean, you didn't actually read the article at all, yet choose to
> >>> comment on it anyway.  If, as you claimed, you had read the closing
> >>> paragraphs (plural) you would have seen:
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> >> What comments did he make about it?
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> > The subject line, for one.
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> He changed the original title. But he followed the implication. That
> isn't a lie, though it's certainly a careless mistake.
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Actually, if you read and understand english - there was no such
implication.

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Tom Shelton


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