On 11/5/2010 9:08 AM, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: > Guys, > > Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, > makes me feel that Bacula project will die. > It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a > free software, is being destroyed like that. > I acknowledge that Kern and other developers had lots of development > work on Bacula - and there is not huge contribution. But creating a paid > fork is not the way of get compensation. > Of course it is a way of getting compensation, and it certainly is not without precedence. Has the Fedora project died because Red Hat has a paid fork called Enterprise Linux? No, it has grown. Like Red Hat, Bacula Systems is filling a niche that is required for many businesses. Many large businesses have support. maintenance, and responsible party and other audit requirements that the community version does not, and will not ever, meet. They simply would not be allowed to use Bacula if there were no Bacula Systems enterprise version. Red Hat contributes greatly to the Fedora project, as it is in their best interest. Likewise, Bacula Systems contributes greatly to the Bacula project. In both cases, the projects would cease to exist, or at least stall, if those companies withdrew. Basically, your assumption that the Bacula project will die due to the existence of a paid enterprise version has no merit whatsoever.
Also like Red Hat, and many other companies involved in open source software, most of the additional features of the enterprise version only pertain to larger installations in an enterprise environment, and are of little or no use to the majority of community version users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
