<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Ludovic,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your note and sending my note to the other Grisbi participants. I'll look forward to hearing from them.</div><div><br></div><div>If a free environment for Linux/Open Source is of interest to them, they should give consideration to joining. The only obligation incurred by joining is to grant a free license to any patents you may have that read on the Linux System. There's no cost to join so if you don't have any patents there's no risk involved and you have a license from the other 3,000 to their Linux System patents.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, thanks for getting back to me.</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Frank</div><img src="https://t.sidekickopen78.com/s2t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LR0gW7fZnJj7d-8KFN8qC6Lnd3_yKW4VkgHF1k1H6H0?si=6543527346176000&pi=1a601639-d8fc-4cc6-f7c1-154d2a5f6987&ti=null" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:25 PM Ludovic Rousseau <<a href="mailto:ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com">ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à  17:35, Frank Casey <<a href="mailto:fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com" target="_blank">fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Ludovic,</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm just following-up on my invitation as I haven't heard from you and, and since I don't know if it got caught in a Spam folder, thought I'd try again.</div><div><br></div><div>Our invitation is a serious one that has now been accepted by over 3,000 others who do not want patent aggression to jeopardize their work.</div><div><br></div><div>If you feel like they do, I hope you will consider accepting our invitation. We'd be pleased to have Grisbi join us.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I received your previous email.</div><div>I am not the project leader or main contributor for Grisbi. I was surprised to receive your email.</div><div><br></div><div>I forwarded the email to the Grisbi -devel mailing list at <a href="http://listes.grisbi.org/pipermail/devel/20190221/002949.html" target="_blank">http://listes.grisbi.org/pipermail/devel/20190221/002949.html</a> but got no feedback. The list is in Cc: this time.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Grisbi is not a company, not even an organization. I don't think Grisbi has a legal existence.</div><div>I can't take the decision to join the OIN on the name of Grisbi.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Maybe other participant in the Grisbi project will speak up this time :-)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Frank Casey</div><div>Open Invention Network<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Frank Casey</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com" target="_blank">fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:22 PM<br>Subject: Invitation to join the Open Invention Network<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com" target="_blank">ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hello Ludovic,<div><br></div><div>My name is Frank Casey and I am writing to you on behalf of the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization formed to foster a safe patent environment for developers or users of Open Source solutions. As Grisbi is an Open Source alternative for accounting purposes, I would like to invite Grisbi to join the OIN community.</div><div><br></div><div>We are a community of well over 2,900 members from around the world and all segments of the Linux/Open Source ecosystem who have joined OIN to prevent patent aggression from jeopardizing their efforts to create or use Linux/Open Source solutions. OIN undertakes a variety of activities to protect its community and our members pledge non-aggression to each other.</div><div><br></div><div>There are no fees to join or maintain membership and you would be joining the likes of IBM, SUSE, Red Hat, Vodafone, Daimler, SAP, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, the Alibabba Group, Wipro, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Twitter, and Mozilla in supporting the principle of non-aggression.</div><div><br></div><div>Ludovic, I hope this invitation reaches you and you have a chance to consider accepting it. The size and breadth of our membership is a testament to our success and we'd be pleased to have Grisbi join our community. To that end, I invite you to visit our website at <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com" target="_blank">https://www.openinventionnetwork.com</a> to learn more and would be glad to answer any questions you may have about OIN membership.</div><div><br></div><div>I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Frank Casey</div><div>Membership Executive</div><div>Open Invention Network</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com" target="_blank">fcasey@openinventionnetwork.com</a></div><div>p: + 1 646 645 2646</div><img src="https://t.sidekickopen78.com/s2t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v4LR0gW7fZnJj7d-8KFN8qC6Lnd3_yKW4VkgHF1k1H6H0?si=6543527346176000&pi=a644c467-a51c-4727-f26f-74476c5e71a7&ti=null" style="display: none;" width="1" height="1"></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-35189812364455818gmail_signature">Â Dr. Ludovic Rousseau</div></div></div>
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