{"id":136,"date":"2006-02-28T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-02-28T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:35:46","slug":"sugarcrm-the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/sugarcrm-the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"SugarCRM, the elephant in the room?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m constantly amazed at how no one calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sugarcrm.com\">SugarCRM<\/a> on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sugarcrm.com\/SPL\/\">deceptive open source license<\/a>. Cliffs Notes: They call it open source, but it by no means qualifies as such and OSI will never certify it because doesn&#8217;t meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Source_Definition\">definition<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines\">open<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/docs\/definition.php\">source<\/a>! Apparently, because they&#8217;ve got a bunch of money no one made a stink when they switched their license, and went from a legitimate &#8220;open source&#8221; company to well, shareware type license.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Asay (smart, sharp, open source advocate) thinks it&#8217;s copacetic (check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/asay.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/john-roberts-osbc-keynote-commercial.html\">thread here<\/a>).  Is SugarCRM allowed to change the definition of open source to suit their own business model? Am I the only one willing to say without any standard (OSI) the term open source will become dilluted and viewed with skepticism?<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; I think I&#8217;m just being awnry now&#8230; I should lay off it I suppose&#8230; Or invite John Roberts to have a beer and see if he can convince this skeptic it&#8217;s not shareware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m constantly amazed at how no one calls SugarCRM on their deceptive open source license. Cliffs Notes: They call it open source, but it by no means qualifies as such and OSI will never certify it because doesn&#8217;t meet the definition of open source! Apparently, because they&#8217;ve got a bunch of money no one made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}