On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Hi everybody,
Just wanted to forward a mail I've got yesterday and would like to
hear your opinions about this topic. Either this could make RoundCube
grow faster or atmail just wants to get rid of some (more and more
serious) competition.
Don't panic, I didn't decide anything yet and I don't want to get rich
anyway :-)
I can't blame anyone for wanting to make a living off their work, if
that was your intent. Reading the email, it does indeed appear to be
a veiled attempt at taking over your work and casting you aside
shortly thereafter. Looking at their product, I have to say that it
is unintuitive, and not at all cohesive. It takes many of the bad
things about Horde and tries to put a sugar-coated interface on top
of it.
If they were truly interested in Open Source as they insist, why
wouldn't they open up a subset of their version? Rather than buying
out an already successful FOSS project and (potentially) stifling its
progress? The comments section at Freshmeat has some unflattering
bits as well (http://freshmeat.net/projects/atmail/).
Just my $0.02.
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
