I am glad me and others are helping you to form a better idea of what makes a product open source. Whenever you are ready to announce an open source release you are more than welcome, open source BI apparently is slowly catching on though.

Happy hacking!

I think what you said is a fair assessment of where we are as of this moment and I enjoyed the cartoon.

I’ve been a programmer for 25 years and the idea of me being the marketing guy would make some former colleagues fall off their chair laughing! Oh wait, they used to do that to me all the time anyway.

**** LATE BREAKING NEWS **** Just today, I initiated a “proper” open source project at SourceForget.net complete with having to agree to all the conditions of Open Source as per their Defintions. We will be open source, then.

I guess it looks like I’m reacting, but truthfully, not really. I created the SourceForge.net project before you told me what you were going to say.

The real reason is that, over the weekend, I had a lot of email from people questioning my approach to Open Source. In responding to their questions, I learned a lot about Open Source, true Open Source :).

So that’s why I decided to open up a SourceForge.net project.

It takes a bit of time go through an approval process and then I have to get the java and c# versions uploaded. But, after that, in a few weeks, we’ll have products that are truly open source as per the broad community definition, no more wiggly-marketing words as per your cartoon :).

For the code that’s up on the Forge, I will ensure there’s enough in there to be useful to a lot of people.

I’ll ping you when I’ve done that, just in case you want to take a look at the “real” open source. Who knows, maybe you’ll want to create your first BI solution after that?

Thanks again and CIAO to all!