On 7/17/23 12:21, Stephan Bosch wrote:
Op 17-7-2023 om 17:54 schreef Steven Varco:
However, I understand some had a better experience with it. I am curious
if someone will fork dovecot and restore the beloved feature.
With all the recent actions going on, clearly targeting in getting
more paying „pro“ customers (and nothing else!) the dovecot project
will walk on thin ice and there is a risk (or chance :) ) that it will
get forked, all the good dovecot developers walking over to the fork
and dovecot let down to a product no one uses anymore.
It happend before, i.ex. nagios/icinga, CentOS/Alma-/Rocky Linux and
other big, commonly used software projects.
Sadly, Dovecot is a project with only a few prolific developers, all of
which work for the company as far as I know. So, the scenario you
describe is pretty unlikely. Maybe new community developers will stand
up now, but that is something I think we can only welcome. And forks
don't need to be adversarial like that.
Regards,
This is a point where we should all remember TANSTAAFL. Its a law you
cannot break no matter how many useless MBA's you hire. Developers like
to eat regular and they can't do that on nothing but our good will.
Dovecot has been good to us, so much so its become the default mail
server all over this pale blue dot. Other than the monthly fees we pay
our ISP's has any one of us donated a stock tank full of ice & beer for
a summer picnic? Or $500 for a costly bug fixed in 2 hours? TANSTAAFL
folks, There really Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Stephan.
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