PSI is an enterprise management software based on SaaS model (Software as a Service). PSI takes the core business of commercial enterprises: procurement, sales, inventory (invoicing and inventory) as the entry point, and the ultimate goal is an industrialized ERP solution.
PSI official website: https://gitee.com/crm8000/PSI
PSI has always insisted: allow anyone to fully privatize PSI's code. The complete privatization here includes, but is not limited to: direct sales for profit; removing any signs about PSI in the code, including copyright signs; using PSI code to apply for a patent. As long as it is a business activity that can be imagined, it is allowed.
Why is this?
1. PSI itself is under continuous development, and the privatized code will have a huge workload in terms of future mergers and upgrades. The reality is that once it's private, it's basically impossible to incorporate new code.
2. After continuous development, PSI has formed a community based on Open Source China and Code Cloud. Companies that privatize code need to compete with the entire open source community with the resources of a single company, and the difficulty can be imagined.
3. This is also PSI's own brand strategy. By licensing others' comprehensive rights and helping others make money, it will help PSI to form a good reputation.
4. The market ability of any company is limited, especially in the management software market, a large number of personalized needs lead to the need for many companies to serve. So even if privatization is not allowed, it will not bring huge benefits to PSI itself. On the contrary, it is better to open up completely and develop the market together with everyone.
In actual community operations, in addition to allowing the complete privatization of PSI's code, these actions are actually used to support and encourage:
1. Complete database design documentation
2. Perfect code comments
3. Technical support at any time in the QQ group
4. For complex technical problems, provide free email technical support and telephone technical support.
PSI is a product-level open source project, not only with code, but also documentation, and a strong open source community. Based on these, the strength of everyone can be gathered to continue to grow.
An open source project, the more open it is, the more power it can gain from the community.