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itbusinessedge.com
June 26, 2007
::: Centric CRM to OSI: But We Are Open Source :::
Michael Tiemann, President, Open Source Initiative, has said that the lines between what is genuinely Open Source and what is not are getting blurred and it’s time that vendors, press, and analysts to use the term ‘open source’ to refer to software licensed under an OSI-approved license. He mentioned SugarCRM and CentricCRM as companies that were promoting their offering as “open source†even when the when the licenses under which they released their software are not OSI-approved licenses. This, according to Michael, is misleading to the public.
CentricCRM’s response was – Our current license is not OSI-approved, nor have we ever claimed it is. But it is open source…
Our software is developed and supported by an online community open to all; ships with full source code and grants customers the freedom to modify their software or any part of it for internal use; and is available for unlimited use, free of charge, by anyone who visits our web site.
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