While I agree with your points Joe, it would have been great for you to answer the exact question which was asked, because as a board member you would know exactly the right thing to say.
A simple yes or no would be helpful in clarifiying this very specific question -
Can I Provide Custom DotNetNuke Installation Package? Yes or No (please select one or the other)
"While the BSD license allows for redistribution" ... I am to assume this means YES
I would think it does, based on the fact that GoDaddy, maximum asp, powerDNN and other hosters provide one click installs - where is the difference? How do you monitor them - I've never seen a comment on this forum that objects to the thousands and thousands downloads they provide. How would it be if you talked like this to GoDaddy? Or emailed the control panel software companies and said don't provide this as a service - there really isn't much difference in the scheme of things. They are providing one click installs and plenty of them are outdated - not the current flavours of dnn becuase the hosting company chooses not to offer it.
What about software that allows us to create our one click installs, such as Plesk, DNP, WHA.. just to name a few.. ????
With DotNetPanel with it's one click install which I have running, including several different flavours of the initial install - are you saying that I can't do this?
I can't see the difference here - it would be great to have some clarification... Ismet is not really allowed to but GoDaddy is? Surely the impact of these problems you are pointing out in your post would be signficantly larger with the likes of GoDaddy by comparison to Ismet community.
I think that what Ismet is offering to do is simply outstanding, this Turkish dilemma with localisation and support has been virtually single handedly managed, worked through problems, chipped away at the process and enchanced it by this single person.
Surely for once you could cut someone a little slack and acknowledge how much they have done and give a little blessing on their very generous offer.
You could have said - "Ismet - thanks for your generous offer to help foster a better DNN awareness in your country. We know that localisation has been really hard to handle and you've done a great job. Go ahead and do this - our licensing allows that, but please let your community know about the risks of upgrading, we'd prefer you send people to our site, but for the comparatively small number of downloads we'd be expecting, by comparison to the size of this project, and the difficulty we've seen the Turkish locale be, we can see some benefits here."
See how much nicer that sounded?
Thanks for perservering Ismet and helping grow DNN in your country!
Nina Meiers
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