On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:13:14PM +0000, Ken Yuinipo wrote:
> The reality is businesses pay developers money. Everyone works for free on
> ES,
Huh? e-smith, prior to its acquisition by Mitel, employed a team of
developers... who are *still* employed by Mitel. Nothing's changed.
> Mitel is stuck with most of the ES linux package as GPL. But everything
> else from now on is going to become propietary (you know with patents,
> trademarks, lawyers, etc).
The SME Server V5 was well into development long before the Mitel
acquisition, and in fact the whole package of the open platform as a
foundation for a range of add-ons was what they found attractive.
Having the open platform is a *good* thing from the perspective of
business (e-smith, Mitel, whoever), because it encourages people to try it
out and lowers the barrier to entry for people who want to use our
platform in (hopefully mutually profitable) ways. Mitel see the value
in that, and want to keep it that way.
Ken, I've never seen you say a single useful or positive thing on this
list. The only time you say anything is when you want to bash us for
some licensing issue which, on every occasion, you have misunderstood
and continued to wilfully misunderstand even after we explain it to you
in small words. Please try to get a clue.
K.
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