-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Sean Clark wrote: > On 11/05/2010 09:12 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 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. >>> [...] >>> I find it ungrateful of you to complain about a not getting everything you >>> want for free -- especially when Bacula Systems has contributed *far* more >>> than the community in creating version 5.0.x. One of the projects I am >>> working on for the next community release is restarting failed jobs. When >>> I hear statements and complaints such as yours, it makes me wonder why I >>> shouldn't just put that code only into the Enterprise version. >> Just so it is really clear, I had and have no intention of putting Restarting >> Failed Jobs only into the Enterprise version. >> >> Kern > Now, see, I think that's actually the kind of thing the original poster > was worried about, not that it's just plain > bad to make money on Legally-Free software or anything. > > There's been some discussion of the "open core" business model going > around lately, so it's not an unreasonable concern. If it WERE the case > that a lot of the new really useful features were going "paid premium > only", I think it WOULD slowly kill off the free community version. I > suspect that's really what Heitor was trying express concern about (and > I suspect English is not his primary language, so his post ended up > looking more intense than perhaps he'd intended). > > It sounds to me like the actual functionality in the community version > isn't likely to be allowed to stagnate any time soon, so I'm not too > worried about there being some extra "bonus" features in the paid > version (a GUI for configuration makes things easier to use, but not > having it doesn't prevent us from using the actual bacula functionality > in the community version). I was just a little surprised that the hate > level in the replies so far seem to be turned up a notch or two higher > than necessary - at least if my interpretation of Heitor's original post > is correct.
You misread that message, I think: >> Just so it is really clear, I had and have no intention of putting >> Restarting Failed Jobs only into the Enterprise version. ...to be fair, it's sort of a double negative. To be even clearer: Kern does not intend to restrict "Restarting Failed Jobs" to the Enterprise version. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzUZ5AACgkQmb+gadEcsb7iVgCggXHLu5rOQseacXAMli54yKV1 o8sAn3sy8jDw6KLbtIBKEoWz59ICrcdu =fJ0A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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