On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Charlie Brady <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Crisp wrote:
>
> > In July 2001, e-smith was acquired by Mitel Networks, in September 2004
> > by Lycoris, and the project is currently sponsored by Resource
> > Strategies, Inc.  (Not)
>
> I don't know what Lycoris purchased, but it wasn't e-smith or anything
> connected with Mitel. Lycoris never owned smeserver software. I think they
> bought a pup, from a bootlegger.
>

Has anyone actually owned the community version of e-smith/SME?   When
Mitel bought e-smith, I bet they were mainly buying the people,
intangibles, and marketing engine of e-smith.  Most all of the code was/is
GPL.

In any event, the Lycoris deal was a bad joke.  They didn't ever really DO
anything other than make some press releases.  I don't believe Lycoris
actually paid any money to RSI, but perhaps some ownership was exchanged in
a potential commercial effort (I don't know this for sure, just guessing).

Greg
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