Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Summer 2007
1.2 Autumn 2007
1.3 Spring 2008
On the new developments page we write in no particular order. And it's summer now.
In an email richard writes:
TO: schoutdi@knoware.nl
From: "Richard Verbeek"
Subject: gesprek met elkaar
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:31:03 +0200
...
- alles met betrekking tot syndeocms staat op naam van Fred
staat, van merknaam tot domeinnaam, ben je het ergens
hierover niet mee eens dan zul je daarvoowhen you disagree on something you will have
to contact him.
r bij hem moeten zijn.
This cripple Dutch translates as:
...
Subject: conversation
...
Everything concerned with syndeocms is on Freds name, from the trademark
up to domainname, when you disagree on something you will have
to contact him.
...
A check on domain names revealed:
DOMAIN syndeocms.com
Owner
Name: R.C.H. Verbeek
Organization: Scorpio B.V.
Email: richardverbeek@gmail.com
Address: van Eeghenstraat 79
The same goes for the .org and .net and .eu domains.
See the following screenshots from:
Richard Verbeek is the site
owner, thus fully responsible for the content and the violations of
copyright and LGPL. When Richard writes "when you disagree on something
you will have to contact him" he denies responsability for
his actions and puts the blame on Fred. Nice partners!
August 2007: It seems 'everything' is connected with 'everything'
in this business.
Fred owns site(s?), Richard owns site(s), sites are linked,
Trinette has a contract with Richard... It's all a bit
intertwined.
October 2007: A slight change, but it's still safe to see them
as a bundle. No need to address Fred or Richard separately.
And Richards statement "Everything concerned with syndeocms is
on Freds name" is stll beside the truth. More to follow.
The other day we visited Freds Syndeo site. To our surpirse we
found this screenshot:
This is worth commenting on:
- Point 4: We sincerely hope that the Mambo - Joomla split
up was not that turbulent as our split up. Due to Freds
unprofessional
behaviour we We lost a good prototyper (Fred),
we lost an excellent developer who was interested in joining
the team but quit when he heard
about Freds viewpoints, we have still a lot of trouble
with
Fred and Richard. We hope the way the Mambo team split was
more professional and pleasant.
- Point 5: Fred simply does not respect copyrights and the
LGPL. Read the installation instructions on his site. They
were written by me (Dirk), and my name is clearly stated in
the bottom line of the original text.
- Point 6: SyndeoCMS is not 'save' and soon unmaintainable.
The code is such a mess that only one man more or less knows
his way in the pile of lines. In this way no other developer
can
contribute to the code. Another word for this situation is
'job security'. Please read the securit reports.
- Fred accuses us of compromising the idea of open source.
It's a serious
allegation that needs a proof. Add the proof Fred!
Unfortunately it's Fred that
disrespects the idea of open source. And here is the
proof.
One of the basics of open source code is that you can reuse
code created by other coders. It's the root of the open
source philosophy and its community. Howerver,
by the same community it is considered a 'crime' to not
attribute, i.e. mention the name of the original
creator of the code you use in your application. This said,
it's worth going to:
/starnet/core/backup.php and take a peek around line
294, where you see:
//
// If there is no data for the column set it to null.
// There was a problem here with an extra space causing the
// sql file not to reimport if the last column was null in
// any table. Should be fixed now :) JLH
//
Who is JLH? Certainly not Fred Stuurman. A Google search
reveals that this code originates
from the PHPBB2 project code, specifically from the file
admin_db_utilities.php. Around line 606 we read:
605 //
606 // If there is no data for the columnset it to null.
607 // There was a problem here with an extra space causing the
608 // sql file not to reimport if the last column was null in
609 // any table. Should be fixed now :) JLH
610 //
Tis can be verified on:
http://www.phpbb.de/doku/xref/nav.html?admin/admin_db_utilities.php.source.html
Nowhere in Freds file 'backup.php' it is mentioned, not in the
header, not in the code, that Fred reused code.
It is Fred who compromises, i.e. endangers the idea of
open source and the open source community.
Well, Richard Verbeek and I met on the 4th of February. To make a
long story short, I quote
a line from a mail. Richard claims he does not violate copyrights
(of course!) and says:
- Wij leveren onze eigen mauals in het Nederlands, Engels of eventueel trainingsvideo's mee.
Which translates as:
- We deliver our own manuals in Dutch, English and eventually
training video's.
It seems reasonable to ask:
>> - Wij leveren onze eigen mauals in het Nederlands,
>> Engels of eventueel trainingsvideo's mee.
Waar kan ik het Engelse manual vinden?
Translation: "Where can I find the English manual?"
No answer from Richard Verbeek on this simple question. Why?
Is he hiding something?
In my humble opinion he is. Why not show his English manual?
I guess he uses my manual and has removed the copyrights,
just like Steve Pallet did.
Steve's action can be seen here
http://syndeocms.info/steve_pallet.html. Both use the same
method: do whatever you like with other people's rights as long
as you can get away with it.
As I said earlier, when you cannot effort a lawyer, use the Internet
for 'naming and shaming'.
Topday, the 28ht of June I received a mail from Mr. Stephen Pallet:
From: Stephen Pallet
Subject: more please
hey dirk, when is the next installment on your little website?
it's like an old soap opera, i'm missing it so much...! :-D
if you learn to spell properly, people might actually believe some
of it!
Mr. Pallet is absolutely right. I make a lot of typos
and spelling errors. My interpretation of the English grammar
might be 'peculiar', not to speak about syntax.
The explanation is simple: I'm a Dutchman, not a native speaker.
Practically I'm almost a blind typist because I am visually impaired.
So I'm afraid Mr. Pallet, I can't even apologise.
A Dutch sentence might be appropriate here:"Beste Stephen Pallet,
je zou een advocaat op mij afsturen. Ik heb tot nu toe niets gezien.
Met vriendelijke groet, Dirk Schouten"
And then, after a busy summer a mail drops in my box. Here it is:
Subject: domein www.siteatschool.nl te koop
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:30:37 +0200
From: Richard Verbeek
Reply-To: richard@schoolsunited.eu
To: Dirk Schouten
Dag Dirk,
Zoals afgesproken, stuur ik je een mail waarin ik de domeinnaam
www.siteatschool.nl te koop aanbiedt.
Jullie stichting kan deze kopen voor . 1000,- incl. btw. waarbij er
tevens diverse negatieve publiciteit (zoals op de homepage
van www.siteatschool.org en op http://www.syndeocms.info) wordt
verwijderd .n dit in de toekomst ook niet meer wordt geplaatst.
Met Vriendelijke Groet,
Richard Verbeek
SchoolsUnited
Well, it's certainly worth a translation.
Subject: domain www.siteatschool.nl for sale
Hello Dirk,
As agreed, I send you a mail in which I offer to sell the
domain name www.siteatschool.nl.
Your foundation can buy it for E 1000,-- including VAT. Wherewith
also various negative publications (like on the homepage
of www.siteatschool.org and on http://www.syndeocms.info) are
removed. And this in the future also not is placed again.
With kind regards,
Richard Verbeek
SchoolsUnited
I must have a memory leak. I do not remember such an appointment,
maybe someone suggested something. Maybe I subbested buyi8ng> Could be. However, I have a strong memory for money and I'm certain that this
1K figure is never mentioned.
Well, let's think about a reaction...
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Author: Dirk Schouten <schoutdi at knoware dot nl>
Last updated: 2008-06-28
