> > Thought everyone might be interested in this Infoworld article: > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/29/HNwebmail_1.html > > It describes Webmail.us' recent conversion from Windows proprietary > systems to Open Source software like RedHat Linux, Postfix, Squirrelmail, > ClamAV and Courier. Great to see this kind of publicity for Squirrelmail > and other open source projects. Maybe in the future we'll get further > details as to their setup, migration process, load balancing and issues > they've faced.
Thanks for the link. This is very interesting to me for a couple of reasons: At first glance, I wasn't sure they were yet using SquirrelMail, but in fact, viewing their code shows that they are in fact offering their users a highly-bastardized version of SM. This is great for SM, except that beside a quick almost in-passing mention in the InfoWorld article, there is no other mention of SM *anywhere* (that I could find). No thanks, no touting, no credit, no nothing. Further, Webmail.us has done a lot of things with the SM code that would never be acceptable for the SM core (or even for plugins), but on the other hand, they've done a lot with look and feel as well as usability, and made several modifications to several plugins that, even if not usable as is for general release, would be *very* helpful to take a look at. That is, they took our product and put it into production... the least they could do (beside give us a little credit) is to share some of the modifications and fixes they've made. Isn't that in the spirit of the "movement"? They took; shouldn't they give back, too? I read pretty much every email that comes across the SM lists, and I sure haven't seen anything... Don't get me wrong - this is exciting for SM, and it sure gives my heart a little blip to see my own code on the screen when looking at their system, but I also can't help but feel a little burn when I think about the endless (unpaid) hours I (we) put into this and the fact that companies like this don't even make contact with us, don't even give us credit, never mind give anything back to us: donations, code fixes/mods, thanks.... This is probably just the nature of how profit-oriented companies use Open Source to their advantage. The sword is clearly double-edged. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
