I believe that The Community feels very strongly otherwise, since more that 75% of the recent voting valued ownership issues, compared to less than 20% who wanted to actually promote Koha to libraries. That's kind of too bad, that 20% thing, because -- contrary to the notion that any company can "cash in" on Koha's good name -- virtually no one knows what the heck a Koha is. http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=United+Kingdom&Type=Public http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=Australia&Type=Public http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=France&Type=Public http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-ils-marketshare.pl?SID=20091009648193359&Country=United+States&Type=Public Thanks, -- Ben On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Thomas Dukleth <kohalist@agogme.com> wrote:
I now have a corrected understanding of Nicole's position. However much better it would be to have only community versions of Koha demonstrations linked from the community website, I would rather we not advocate purity in a manner that LibLime is liable to respond to in the most negative manner.
At this time, I prefer that we ask LibLime to demote their non-community demonstrations as linked from the community website in favour of community demonstrations with no subtle advertising. I prefer a gentler approach to LibLime than asking them to eliminate links to their demonstrations. In suggesting this approach, I am hoping that we would be encouraging LibLime to act more favourably towards the community which I hope that they would reciprocate.
I am advocating this less than pure approach for the time being to see if it may have a favourable effect.
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