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

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:35:58PM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:23:55PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> > Ron Guerin wrote:
> > > 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.  
> 
> 
> This statement is very factual not only about groupware, but also accounting
> packages, inventory control systems, healthcare software, retail sales software
> and a whole slew of other software which involves things that aren't fun or
> interesting from the POV of a developer.