On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Greg Zartman <g...@leiengineering.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Charlie Brady < > charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Crisp wrote: >> >> > In July 2001, e-smith was acquired by Mitel Networks, in September 2004 >> > by Lycoris, and the project is currently sponsored by Resource >> > Strategies, Inc. (Not) >> >> I don't know what Lycoris purchased, but it wasn't e-smith or anything >> connected with Mitel. Lycoris never owned smeserver software. I think they >> bought a pup, from a bootlegger. >> > > Has anyone actually owned the community version of e-smith/SME? When > Mitel bought e-smith, I bet they were mainly buying the people, > intangibles, and marketing engine of e-smith. Most all of the code was/is > GPL. > The GPL is a license under which code is released by the copyright holder. Gordon > > In any event, the Lycoris deal was a bad joke. They didn't ever really DO > anything other than make some press releases. I don't believe Lycoris > actually paid any money to RSI, but perhaps some ownership was exchanged in > a potential commercial effort (I don't know this for sure, just guessing). > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion about project organisation and overall direction > To unsubscribe, e-mail discussion-unsubscr...@lists.contribs.org > Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/ >
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