I beg to differ. LAVA is a forum for this. As an independant forum, its participants will discuss anything related closely or loosely to LabVIEW. If we have questions about a product, we surely will continue to ask them. Whether or not AddQ wants to continue the discussion is entirely up to you, but deleting parts of discussion leaves a very bad impression and probably will encourage others to continue without you able to correct any misinterpretations. Fleeing the discussion only risks to aggravate it.
I adhere strongly to the principles of open source, but never at the expense of stealing intellectual property. Know-how can be duplicated given time and efforts, but copying source code directly without giving proper credits or respecting licensing agreements is a breech that even an open-source fan like myself cannot disregard.
Come with a genuine framework completely out of your gut, and the community will give it a chance. Ask for contribution from this open source community and you might even get it. But long time contributors to this forum make a living of creating products as a add-on to LabVIEW. Let's not kill their business to create another one.
I salute the effort to build a business out of a completely open source product offering as a marketing strategy to develop your consulting business, but it has to respect the rules and existing competition. Fair competition will benefit everyone in this community. Existing products will need to get better to stay on the edge, new products will attract business and end users like most of us will get increased productivity from a better development environment.
If you cannot continue this discussion for legal reasons, please say so. But if you don't want to continue the discussion, I think it leaves a bad aftertaste to all of this, and no chance for redemption.