Nice, thanks. On Monday 16 July 2007 23:23, Scott Barninger wrote: > Hello All, > > For those on the lists who do not know me, I am the primary packaging > manager for bacula linux binaries. I am the primary commit person on the > rpm spec file as well as building *many* release files and managing > contributions from other folks for platforms I don't build directly. I > have also in the past produced Windows binaries and may do so again in > the future. I'm not sure. > > I began my involvement with this project on 3/30/2003 with the initial > incarnation of the rpm spec file. I have received feedback in the past > from companies and distributions praising the multi-platform approach we > have taken with that spec file. I think there are very few projects out > there that "out of the box" will build to the number of platforms that > we do. And I spend a lot of effort to keep that up to date and growing > with the help of many contributors on rpm based platforms. Many other > folks do the same for BSD, Debian etc. > > bacula has come a long way in that time due to the contributions of > *many* people and still has some way to go in some regards vs. > comparable commercial software. In some ways it excels that very same > commercial software. This is the essence of open source software. It is > a commons that we develop collaboratively, and knowledge and capability > advances in the same way that science in general advances. > > So where does this leave us in the present discussion? I work my primary > job as a Director for USAirways. As such I am involved in many projects > that include software. My position/expertise is in fleet management so I > am involved with a particular commercial software package that I will > not name, but suffice to say that it is business critical and costs the > company a *lot* of money, both in terms of license fees and maintenance > and support fees. A recent proposal to our finance department to > implement a reporting module was in the neighborhood of one quarter > million dollars. You read that right and now ask yourself how useful is > a database driven application where the reporting capability is such a > priced "option." > > My point is this. We all do this in an effort to provide a service and > advance the general art. If we are to continue in the long run we need > the support of those who utilize the efforts. If you are a private user > we welcome you at no charge. If you are a commercial enterprise then > please contemplate contributing a portion of what you save by accessing > the commons. Otherwise the golden egg goose will not likely survive. > > As bacula moves into the enterprise mainstream there will be more and > more requests for features and support. The way to do this consequent > with the OSS model is that we need to generate an income stream to the > project in some way, thus hire developers to build upon what is > contributed. Kern and the other core developers can not do this alone. > Neither can Linus do it with the kernel. IBM gets this. Others do not. > > Regards, > Scott > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel >
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