[Kolab-devel] Fwd: RE: New Kolab Website Live

[Del]

Thanks for the clarifications, a couple of sentences on the web page should
suffice to avoid unfortunate misinterpretations. I really look forward to
the coming years with kolab and kdepim :)

Have a nice week-end,
Del

On 1. mars 2012 10:09, "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at kolabsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Del,
>
> On Wednesday 29 February 2012 22.04:15 Del wrote:
> > Congratulations with the new web-site, it looks really nice.
>
> Thanks - it's a collaborative effort with some of the KDE community, in
> particular Nuno Pinheiro, and I think it is starting to look the way we
want
> our website to be.
>
> But there is still quite a bit of work to be done. And as mentioned
before,
> all help on the filling and maintaining of that site is very welcome. I
think
> the Kolab community needs to get a lot better at making it easy for
people to
> get involved - so one day I'd love to have tutorials for beginners,
videos,
> some FAQs and all that.
>
>
> > This is something I have been longing for for some time, and I think it
will
> > significantly help to spread the interest in Kolab.
>
> Thanks. Yes, we believe so, as well.
>
> We must get this native & as much upstream as we can.
>
>
> > Point 6 may suggest that Kolab has moved to an open core model.
>
> That is something that will *never* happen as long as I am involved.
>
> In Kolab Systems, Open Core is typically called neo-proprietary, and
there is
> *no* advocate for that approach involved on our side. In fact everything I
> have written while still with FSFE on these subjects still applies:
>
>        http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=347
>        http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=260
>
> And yes, Kolab Systems is a Free Software company in that sense.
>
> We have *no* dual licensing and do not think to ever introduce any.
>
> We have assigned Copyright in some parts of the Kolab server to FSFE
under the
> fiduciary programme, such as the Z-Push backend.
>
> We always work with the upstream for as much as we can, making sure all
our
> work not only benefits the Kolab users, but the communities at large,
such as
> the work on the new web interface that has provided many of the
improvements
> now found in the Roundcube 0.7 release, or our work on KDE PIM, which
benefits
> all users of KDE.
>
> As Jeroen already pointed out, the difference is in the area of Fedora vs
RHEL,
> and likewise we're having one stream of packages that is available through
> software subscription with a set of extra QA and SLA to get guaranteed
2nd/3rd
> level support based on a reproduceable build.
>
> It may in fact often end up having fewer features than the community
edition,
> as that will have much lower standards for code acceptance and will be
> following a "features first" approach.
>
> We'll naturally still make that as good as we can, but it'll be more of
the
> testbed and development version like Fedora is for RHEL.
>
> In any case: There are no proprietary components in any of this, so anyone
> else is also welcome to take the components and put them together in
> intelligent ways.
>
> But of course we hope that people will largely help us push the main
stream of
> development to everyone's benefit, rather than splintering the efforts.
>
>
> > BTW, I loved the foreword you wrote in "Open Advice" :)
>
> Thanks! I was hoping it would set the right context for the book. :)
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>
> --
> Georg C. F. Greve
> Chief Executive Officer
>
> Kolab Systems AG
> Zürich, Switzerland
>
> e: greve at kolabsys.com
> t: +41 78 904 43 33
> w: http://kolabsys.com
>
> pgp: 86574ACA Georg C. F. Greve
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