I could write many pages, but it all comes down to one concept: ethics.

When I talk about Free Software, I talk about not only about freedom, but also community and good will from the software author. The latter probably is the most important one.

You write Free Software because you want to contribute to the community. It's an act of social activism. It's about sharing and helping out.

This April I got a mail from Chris Larsen, a doctor working in Rwanda, where he was asking OpenERP the scripts to upgrade to 6.x, since they needed to have the latest Medical version. The response he got was that the scripts were not publicly available anymore. If they wanted to upgrade, they would have to pay a support contract to OpenERP. This is the typical example of a vendor lock-in. They change the rules (even the license) and then the user becomestheir prisoner.

That very same day I started the implementation of GNU Health (previously called "medical") in the Tryton platform. B…