The reality is businesses pay developers money. Everyone works for free on
ES, ES sold out to an 800lb gorilla (Mitel) and now you are feeding us this
GPL/opensource garbage, Blake?
Get real. Mitel's investors are not going to be happy if they hear the word
linux or opensource mentioned in their board room. They want to hear
"unfair competitive advantages" and other exec-speak.
Mitel is stuck with most of the ES linux package as GPL. But everything
else from now on is going to become propietary (you know with patents,
trademarks, lawyers, etc).
I know ES has to make money, and so does Mitel. Just don't believe
everything their PR dept. is pumping out. I would do the same thing if I
was Mitel.
Ken Y.
>The reality of the situation is that companies are in business to make
>money,
>and volunteer effort/programming, while it does produce some good products,
>doesn't always produce software that businesses need. Mitel, IMHO, is
>trying to
>do a balancing act between the two, still offereing the base product for
>free,
>but trying to do a value add for businesses who don't have the time or
>resources
>to manage those items themselves, yet identify that they have the need.
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