Re: Time to take down the fork notice?

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

Chris Travers wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Josh Berkus <..hidden..> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The first text one reads on ledgersmb.org says:
> >
> > "LedgerSMB is a fork of a popular general ledger software package called
> > SQL-Ledger largely written and maintained by Dieter Simader.
> > SMB is an acronym for Small Medium Business."
> >
> > The project is almost a year old now, and I'll bet there's as much of Chris'
> > code as Dieter's at this point.  Time to stop calling ourselves a fork, yes?
> > Or at least, not before we explain anything else.
>
> I would suggest making this change when we release 1.3.
>
> 1.3 is architecturally different (at least for new code) and
> represents a major departure point.


+1

> > I suggest:
> >
> > "LedgerSMB is an open source, free, web-based small business general ledger
> > and accounting software package.  It performs the work of popular software
> > like QuickBooks and Peachtree, with additional modules for Point of Sale,
> > Inventory and other features."
> >
> > Then we can put the Dieter-fork sentence somewhere towards the end of the
> > About page.
> >
> > --
> > Josh Berkus
> > PostgreSQL @ Sun
> > San Francisco
> >
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