[Koha-devel] [Koha] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust re: Koha

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Wed Nov 23 21:30:34 CET 2011


2011/11/24 Buster <storypage at gmail.com>

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> 2011/11/22 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
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>> There has already been plenty of outrage expressed by the Koha community
>> and clearly it hasn't made a difference.
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> Oh, I don't know about that. We investigated Koha and Evergreen for a year
> and recently decided to go with community Koha using ByWater Solutions as a
> vendor rather than LibLime largely because of LibLime's position within (or
> rather, without) the community. That, and the fact its product has
> basically become a proprietary system with all the weaknesses and pitfalls
> of such systems. While investigating, we did visit a couple of LibLime
> clients who are jumping ship as soon as they are legally able, for many of
> the same reasons we eschewed it from the git-go.
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> So, I think it has, in fact, made a difference. People who care do pay
> attention.
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> Some very interesting news.


http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-exemplar-of-stupid-koha-vs-liblime-trademark/#comment-1761



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