Heitor,
Your bacula training courses are not free!
Your book "Bacula, ferramenta livre de backup" are also not free!
You can make money with bacula, but others can't. Well, I understand...
2010/11/5 Ryan Novosielski
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> On 11/05/2010 09:52 AM, 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.
> >
> > Bacula Systems has financed additional features and has created an
> Enterprise
> > version that is available to subscribers.
> >
> > All community contributions including most Bacula Systems contributions
> go
> > into the community version which is available to everyone.
> >
> > For two years we were putting everything into the community version, but
> the
> > company will not survive that is very clear -- Bacula Systems spends more
> > than CHF 50,000 / month in salaries and other costs. Very few people or
> > companies are willing to finance this for something that is free.
> >
> > You complain, but you suggest no viable alternatives. I nolonger want to
> be
> > the only person contributing most to Bacula and fixing most of the bugs.
> So
> > If Bacula Systems fails, the project will most likely die, stagnate, or
> the
> > code reliablity will become so bad in a few years that no one will want
> to
> > use it.
> >
> > I have spent 15 years contributing everything I do to Open Source, 10 of
> those
> > years to Bacula. Other people have done more, but for me that is a lot!
> All
> > the code I continue t contribute is Open Source, but I choose not to give
> all
> > of it to everyone today, because I want to see Bacula continue -- the
> only
> > way to do so is to ensure that Bacula Systems continues. Both Bacula
> Systems
> > and I could make the code proprietary as do virtually all other projects
> that
> > include support. We have chosen to continue writing Open Source, which
> has a
> > lot of risks.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Had you attended the recent Bacula conference, you would have had ample
> time
> > to discuss these points and to hear what I and other users say.
> >
> > If you want these features, why don't you submit the code for them or
> > stimulate the community to do so. Anything that comes from the community
> > will be available to the community, and this is generally after we invest
> a
> > significant amount of time correcting the code, debugging it, testing it,
> > releasing it, documenting the new features, and then later supporting it
> with
> > bug fixes. I have the feeling that most people are unaware of the amount
> of
> > work that goes into creating and supporting Bacula -- even with features
> > contributed by the community.
> >
> > The Bacula project will only die if Bacula Systems fails and the
> community
> > does not make more contributions.
> >
> > So please stop complaining, and be happy that Bacula Systems is
> contributing
> > to the Bacula project, and that all of Bacula Systems code is Open
> Source,
> > even if everyone doesn't get everything for free. This is far better
> than us
> > taking the code proprietary as other projects are doing. Continuing to
> > complain may well contribute to the Bacula project dying.
>
> Kern,
>
> Thank you for what you do provide. Bacula has been a great and
> trouble-free piece of software. I'd love to adopt it more and move to
> the paid enterprise edition, but that is not how my workplace thinks. So
> again, kudos and thank you.
>
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