I don't think ZC feels this way.
Note the comment by Hadar Pedhazur, Chairman of Zope
Corporation:
comment
at:http://www.zope.com/News/PressReleases/DC2ZC
This name change is intended to ensure that Zope and
the company that develops Zope are more closely
associated with one another in the
Message-
From: Clark O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:57 PM
To: Casey Duncan; R. David Murray; Chris Withers
Cc: Stephan Richter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Competition
I don't think ZC feels this way.
Note the comment by Hadar
problems can happen
from hoarding beans, don't you?
Sean
-Original Message-
From: Clark O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] Competition
No I am not implying anything other
I am hearing to different stories, sometimes from the
same people.
On the one hand ZC is this munificent benefactor of
Zope.
On the other hand ZC is this poor cash strapped little
company that can't afford to take any interest in Zope
unless they have an immediate incentive.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT
Just as a last comment- and this is getting tiresome
even for me.
My favorite freeware project is JBoss www.jboss.org.
They built a really excellent J2EE server without any
corporate funding.
The JBoss developers manage the training and support
for JBoss themselves, and use the revenue it
If anyone has seen how open source works, there is
usually a strong core team - like the ZC folks- who
provide direction to the project. There are also
dozens if not hundreds of enthusiastic folks who are
less involved but contribute features, patches, bug
fixes, documentation ...
Despite the
Thanks Andrew for a heartfelt description of what is
happening here.
It is clear that unlike the other freeware products
like Lenux, JBoss.., Zope has lost all of the
advantages of being a freeware product.
What I find sad is that the extreme commercialization
of Zope is hurting Zope- this
Chris,
I posted the bug at 11/30/2001 11:17 AM, a copy was
also sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using a different
e-mail now because my other e-mail address no longer
receives messages from zope-dev.
Clark
--- Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I posted a serious
