[nylug-talk] The future of Zimbra after Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!

[Ron Guerin]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:44:38PM -0500, George Bourozikas wrote:

>> Also, has the Yahoo! Public License (which is used for Zimbra Open Source) 
>> been scrutinized in any way?
>>
> If this YPL is indeed 'open-source-like', then at leaast folks should be
> able to fork it and work around any issues. If not, well, then it
> wouldn't matter anyway.

When it comes to stuff like this, the license is almost beside the 
point.  If not developed by a company paying developers, it won't be 
developed at all.  One thing you've never seen, and aren't likely to 
ever see, are community developers hard at work on groupware that's 
actually useful to anyone.  There is a prevailing attitude that this 
stuff is beneath them, and that the companies that want it should pay 
people to write it.

- Ron