>
> 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.



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