Kolab solution completely Free Software

[IGnatius T Foobar]

Hi Bernhard,

Nice to hear from you.  I hope all is well in Kolab land.  :)

The recent Citadel announcement is, hopefully, a way to get some Citadel 
publicity into what some in the community consider a slow time of the 
year for free software news.  We're definitely very proud that we've 
built an entire groupware system out of original code instead of 
integrating existing pieces, and this is what has given us the ability 
to declare GPLv3 across the entire system.

Kolab is an excellent approach as well, and we have always been on 
friendly terms with the Kolab people.  Two different approaches that 
solve some of the same problems.

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Kolab also does not have a "restricted" or non-free version of any kind.
> The companies being members of the Kolab Konsortium (like Intevation, my 
> company) even offer the exact versions they recommend for their professional 
> support as gratis downloads.
>
> As a Free Software person I like diversity and as a business person 
> I like competition, so I welcome that Citadel is around.
> Naturally I hope to clarify the potential missunderstandings about Kolab
> within the Citadel community.
>   
Agreed.  Our comments regarding "not really free" groupware packages 
were actually directed at Zimbra and Scalix, and possibly others, who 
only seem to have free and non-free tiers because they wanted to be able 
to help themselves to Postfix, Cyrus, MySQL, etc. without having to pay 
for them.  Kolab, on the other hand, has always "done the right thing" 
by releasing the entire stack as free software.

I hope that clears up any misunderstanding.  Best wishes to all of you 
in the Kolab community.

    Art Cancro
    lead developer, Citadel.org