Hi As the director of a company that supports and develops many FLOSS products, including Koha and as the President of the New Zealand Open Source Society, I would just like to make a few points on this topic. Koha is a project that was started by a very small community in New Zealand. That community donated Koha, a gift, to the world. That the world wide community has been able to extend Koha fantastically, organise itself and sustain itself is testament to the vision and ideals that were behind the original gift. Indeed, for potential users of Koha the community strength and resilience should be a major attraction. This resilience is more important in the medium and long term than the technology itself. The GNU General Public Licence that Koha uses guarantees that users of the software will always have their rights and freedoms protected and sustained. These cannot be captured by single entities or individuals such as Catalyst or Liblime or even the company originally developed and still supports the technology, Katipo. As a businessman, seeing the Koha community take such interest in their software gives me confidence that it is a system worth supporting and investing in. I know many other businesses round the world feel the same. As long as there is a vibrant and demanding community of users there will be many businesses vying to offer their support services. If that community fades away then so will the support. LibLime have been, and hopefully will continue to be, a leading member of the Koha community, but it will have to be on the community's terms, not someone's outdated ideal of a business model. As Kiwi I am proud of HLT, Katipo and Koha. As a businessman I am confident in the sustainability and future of the software. Kia Kaha Don -- --------------------------------------- Donald Christie (ITCP) - Director Catalyst IT Limited Level 6,150-154 Willis Street, PO Box 11-053 Wellington New Zealand Tel:+64 4 4992267 Mob:+64 274 707814 http://catalyst.net.nz ----------------------------------------