The least expensive support plan at $750/yr is too expensive for just repository access. Please consider offering an option for those of us who just want official stable packages. $150/yr for such a service is justifiable for how I use it.
Regards, Jason — Jason Wohlford <ja...@wohlford.co> (334) 322-1491 > On Jul 19, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Ludovic Marcotte (lmarco...@inverse.ca) > <users@sogo.nu> wrote: > > Hello, > > Over the past 10 years, Inverse has been developing SOGo and providing > everything (software packages, documentation, etc.) completely free of > charge. A massive number of organizations worldwide have successfully > deployed SOGo and benefit for free from the continuous enhancements of the > software. > > After many months of discussion and thinking, we made the decision to close > down the public package repositories. From now on, in order to access the > production builds of SOGo for various Linux distributions, you will need a > proper support contract from Inverse. The options are listed here: > > https://sogo.nu/support/index.html#support-plans > > Payments can be made by credit card. > > We hope that this move will help Inverse to: > > • increase its investments in SOGo > • accelerate SOGo v3 evolution by adding more features (S/MIME, > alternate storage backends, etc.) > • expedite bugs fixing and small feature additions > • invest in gravitational projects > • extend its support to more Linux distributions > • create a VAR channel to resell and participate in providing support > Tying up package repositories to a support agreement is important for us as > Inverse strives to offer stellar support and we want to bring more value for > the money to each customer. Current organizations that have a support > contract with us will automatically get access to the package repositories. > Official packages also offer the advantage of being thoroughly tested before > they are released. > > SOGo will continue to remain entirely Free and Open Source. The source code > will always be fully available and we will keep using the current licenses. > Nightly builds will also remain available to all, as well as the ZEG > configured with the latest software. > > Thanks for your support and understanding. Together, we all make SOGo better! > > -- > Ludovic Marcotte > > lmarco...@inverse.ca :: +1.514.755.3630 :: http://inverse.ca > > Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo ( > http://sogo.nu), PacketFence (http://packetfence.org) and Fingerbank > (http://fingerbank.org > ) > > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
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