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

[Ruben Safir]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:44:34PM -0500, George Bourozikas wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 15:57:39 Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> [...]
> >   As for Zimbra, they will construct a pathway for users to convert to
> > Exchange.  Theyll scoop up as many users as possible and dump the
> > stubborn ones.  Isn't the point of adopting OSS to prevent this
> > situation?
> 
> That's what I would expect
>  
> >   note: YPL has *not* been approved by the OSI.
> >    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
> > 
> >   Zimbra's YPL license page:
> >    http://www.zimbra.com/license/yahoo_public_license_1.0.html
> > 
> >   There is also the Zimbra license, and its realtionship to the
> > product at this point is unclear to me, as is probably the intention
> > of the managers at Zimbra.  Oops its not Open Source after all!  "We
> > call it /open sourcesque/..."
> 
> Like others said (and I agree) OSI-approved licensing is irrelevant if there 
> aren't enough developers interested in a product, in which case corporate 
> sponsorship is what is needed.
> 
OSI approval aside, corporate sponsorship is only useful with a Free Software
lisense...otherwise it is still slaveware.

Ruben

> --george
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