-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It's not clear to me what's objectionable about the post about Bareos. All of the assertions contain "allegedly" as far as I can see it. If there's something untrue, it would probably be better to correct it rather than to remove it.
On 04/10/2014 03:19 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello Phil, > > You did a nice job of summarizing it -- thanks. > > I will add one more point. Perhaps some of you may think that I am > against all forks of Bacula. But in fact that is not true. There > are already several forks of Bacula and I have known about them for > quite some time (well before Bareos), and you have never heard me > complain about them. > > Let me mention just one "burp" (strange name, but certainly no > worse that what Bacula means). The guy who wrote it was also a > Bacula contributor (and if I am not mistaken a Bacula Systems > partner). > > All you have to do is read the first few lines of his home page > that explain why he created the fork and you can see that he is a > good guy, he just wanted to do something different. I respect him > and wish him well with his fork. > > Best regards, Kern > > On 04/09/2014 10:49 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 04/09/14 16:37, Randall Svancara wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Bacula is a great product and it is great to see that it is >>> thriving. Obviously the Bareos fork is giving you grief as it >>> aims to provide a competing product under a more open licensing >>> model. Although you could litigate or wage war on the Bareos >>> project, and put all your efforts into their demise. I might >>> suggest your efforts would be better served at building a >>> stronger community in the Bacula project. Show Bareos why >>> Bacula is better through a thriving, well supported community >>> that wants to contribute to make Bacula better. Taking the >>> higher road on this might be a better strategy. Eventually all >>> campaigns to defame another will come back to bite you in some >>> way. Keep building a great product and I think you will find >>> in time that Bareos will simply disappear. Move the technology >>> forward, make it easier to use, provide a great value >>> proposition and you will win every time. If I were you, I >>> would see the Bareos project as an opportunity to raise the >>> bar, make a better product. >> >> Randall, You are missing the point. >> >> The issue is not that Bareos is a fork of Bacula. If Bareos were >> a clean, above-the-board fork of Bacula community edition, >> conducted openly and maintaining all due attribution and credit, >> there would not be a problem. But that's not what happened. >> DassIT created the Bareos fork in secret using Bacula Enterprise >> code stolen from Bacula Systems by a consultant who was under >> non-disclosure agreement, removed all of the author attributions >> from the code in an apparent attempt to disguise the theft, and >> then launched a smear campaign against Bacula. >> >> I think you will have to agree this is a very different state of >> affairs. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project > now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users > mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > - -- ____*Note: UMDNJ is now Rutgers-Biomedical and Health Sciences* || \\UTGERS |---------------------*O*--------------------- ||_// Biomedical | Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer || \\ and Health | novos...@rutgers.edu - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) || \\ Sciences | OIT/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark `' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNG9AsACgkQmb+gadEcsb65UQCgxN+/dnZCsi9dbbiJRrPy0jX9 8EwAni2MR4p6VgDWIRGQkhhNv/4xlMb5 =l5UD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
