On 11/05/2010 09:12 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, >>> makes me feel that Bacula project will die. >>> It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a >>> free software, is being destroyed like that. >>> I acknowledge that Kern and other developers had lots of development >>> work on Bacula - and there is not huge contribution. But creating a paid >>> fork is not the way of get compensation. >> [...] >> I find it ungrateful of you to complain about a not getting everything you >> want for free -- especially when Bacula Systems has contributed *far* more >> than the community in creating version 5.0.x. One of the projects I am >> working on for the next community release is restarting failed jobs. When >> I hear statements and complaints such as yours, it makes me wonder why I >> shouldn't just put that code only into the Enterprise version. > Just so it is really clear, I had and have no intention of putting Restarting > Failed Jobs only into the Enterprise version. > > Kern Now, see, I think that's actually the kind of thing the original poster was worried about, not that it's just plain bad to make money on Legally-Free software or anything.
There's been some discussion of the "open core" business model going around lately, so it's not an unreasonable concern. If it WERE the case that a lot of the new really useful features were going "paid premium only", I think it WOULD slowly kill off the free community version. I suspect that's really what Heitor was trying express concern about (and I suspect English is not his primary language, so his post ended up looking more intense than perhaps he'd intended). It sounds to me like the actual functionality in the community version isn't likely to be allowed to stagnate any time soon, so I'm not too worried about there being some extra "bonus" features in the paid version (a GUI for configuration makes things easier to use, but not having it doesn't prevent us from using the actual bacula functionality in the community version). I was just a little surprised that the hate level in the replies so far seem to be turned up a notch or two higher than necessary - at least if my interpretation of Heitor's original post is correct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
