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On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Sean Clark wrote:
> 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.
You misread that message, I think:
>> Just so it is really clear, I had and have no intention of putting >>
Restarting Failed Jobs only into the Enterprise version.
...to be fair, it's sort of a double negative. To be even clearer:
Kern does not intend to restrict "Restarting Failed Jobs" to the
Enterprise version.
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