May 8

Written by: Paul Rony
5/8/2009 9:30 AM 

SugarCRM’s CEO, John Robert’s exit is probably a good thing. When we started SplendidCRM, we thought that the folks at SugarCRM would be open to suggestions. Our path has always been to cater to the developers that only want a Microsoft-based solution, so we really did not see SplendidCRM as competition to SugarCRM, but more as a complement to SugarCRM. Apparently, John Roberts did not see it the same way. Instead of embracing the whole open-source mantra, he threatened us with a lawsuit. Such threats are empty because the whole point of open-source is to encourage others to build upon the platform; in fact, the accompanying license specifically encourages this.

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