I did post this over in Hula-General then remembered this list so though I really should cross post to here as well. ========================================= Jared Pickerell wrote: > Not sure what this means for the Hula/Bongo community. Do we need to stop > going down the Bongo path and go back to the Hula project with the help of > Messaging Architects? If they are going to be supporting the project, I don't > know as if we want to fork. It might be the wrong thing to do for the > community. > > http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=734 and > http://www.messagingarchitects.com/netmail > > Jared > The problem with so many of the "Company Sponsored" mostly opensource projects out there now is the commercial company line of creating a commercial version separate from the real libre version, then artificially dropping features from the libre version to differentiate the two. Its not that the differences are due to closed source, but that the company will prevent similar features being developed by the community. For some examples check out both Scalix and Zimbra, attempts to create libre versions of the commercial features are not accepted into the libre version. Zimbra even takes it as far as discouraging attempts to unbundle the zimbra package from the included apache/mysql etc or at least make it a real pita.
MA have already said that they will not be including any of the AV work in Hula, here is the quote from the FAQ on the MA site. "*Q. Will M+Guardian be integrated with NetMail or Hula?* No. Although M+Guardian is based on the Hula project, it contains a number of proprietary email filtering technologies that cannot be open-sourced if they are to remain effective deterrents against spammers and other malicious attacks" So that means the code will not be included because it needs to use "security through obscurity" and it will also be one of the differentiators between the libre and commercial version I mentioned above. Personally, I do not see a continuation of a company sponsored Hula as the way forward, especially if we are already in the "copyright retained by Novell" stage. MA are naturally mostly interested in Netmail and its commercial aspects with Hula being an incidental tagalong. This is a wonderful breeding ground for the Zimbra/Scalix setup all over again. For a true community version with no lingering corporate direction issues or feature set incompatibilities - Bongo all the way. Now I have to figure out how to upgrade my r400-ish version of Hula ;-) _______________________________________________ Bongo-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-users
