[software] Call for evaluation of Donor.com

Josh Berkus josh at agliodbs.com
Fri Aug 22 17:44:38 UTC 2008


Jim,

> If it was a toss-up, you might go for the "sure thing" of writing our 
> own, but it's not a toss-up since even if the licensing doesn't come 
> through on the schedule proposed, we are still up on something that's 
> already functioning and we can operate on that system with very low 
> cost. That gives us all more time to do the other stuff our foundations 
> need.

Well, if it's not OSS, I don't know that it solves the problem.  Non-OSS 
systems can change their terms dramatically when we least expect it. 
Also, there's an ideological issue, as well as our inability to tweak 
the software to work the way we want it.

--Josh


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