Comments on: Lemur Flax: Open Source Search Pressure Rises http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/lemur-flax-open-source-search-pressure-rises/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/lemur-flax-open-source-search-pressure-rises/comment-page-1/#comment-3211 Stephen E. Arnold Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:59:02 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/lemur-flax-open-source-search-pressure-rises/#comment-3211 Thanks for the clarification. If I get additional postings about the pricing, I will update the main entry. Keep me informed of Lemur and Flax developments. I appreciate your writing to clarify my understanding. I will be in London in October 2008. I'm willing to sit through a dog and pony show then. Stephen Arnold, March 11, 2008 4 pm Eastern Thanks for the clarification. If I get additional postings about the pricing, I will update the main entry. Keep me informed of Lemur and Flax developments. I appreciate your writing to clarify my understanding. I will be in London in October 2008. I’m willing to sit through a dog and pony show then.

Stephen Arnold, March 11, 2008 4 pm Eastern

]]> By: Charlie Hull http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/lemur-flax-open-source-search-pressure-rises/comment-page-1/#comment-3104 Charlie Hull Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:58 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/lemur-flax-open-source-search-pressure-rises/#comment-3104 Hi Stephen, thanks for the great writeup. We're very proud of Flax and the Mydeco implementation. A quick clarification though: we don't charge anything for our 'version of the Flax system', nor do we provide any proprietary enhancements: all of Flax is licensed under the GPL and is freely downloadable as open source software. We charge only for our services. If we are asked by a client to develop extensions to Flax, we encourage the client to let us contribute the changes back to the project, so that future users may benefit - but of course, unless the client is distributing the binary code for their solution, they don't *have* to distribute the source code, so they may choose to keep their custom code in-house to preserve competitive advantage. Best, Charlie Hull Managing Director, Lemur Consulting Ltd. Hi Stephen, thanks for the great writeup. We’re very proud of Flax and the Mydeco implementation.

A quick clarification though: we don’t charge anything for our ‘version of the Flax system’, nor do we provide any proprietary enhancements: all of Flax is licensed under the GPL and is freely downloadable as open source software. We charge only for our services.

If we are asked by a client to develop extensions to Flax, we encourage the client to let us contribute the changes back to the project, so that future users may benefit – but of course, unless the client is distributing the binary code for their solution, they don’t *have* to distribute the source code, so they may choose to keep their custom code in-house to preserve competitive advantage.

Best,

Charlie Hull
Managing Director, Lemur Consulting Ltd.

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