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.



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