Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] "stop bitching about it"

2010-11-08 11:42:37
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] "stop bitching about it"
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:39:04 -0500
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On 11/08/2010 11:10 AM, Sean Clark wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 10:57 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> Just stop bitching about it and do something.  We aren't
>> here to listen to trolls.
> [...]
> This kind of what I meant with my previous post about the hate-level in 
> the replies here.  It's kind of surprising.
> 
> Did I miss some previous post by the guy who started this thread?  Does 
> he post this a lot, or is this just a REALLY
> touchy topic?
> 
> I really didn't get the impression he was trolling.  I'm not personally 
> worried about Bacula Systems' business model doing any harm to the free 
> edition of Bacula at all at the moment, but I can understand why someone 
> might be these days.

I got the impression he was complaining about the only thing that makes
money for this project. Plenty of people write software and open source
it and don't ever attempt to monetize it; I'm not personally sure why
those people do it, but yes it is very nice. This piece of software I
can totally understand going the other way. It was an obviously major
undertaking, and it is overkill (essentially) for non-enterprise situations.

I personally wish that I could contribute more, but I do help out on the
mailing list and I do recommend Bacula when it makes sense to do so. I
think most on this list have read Kern's frustrations with aspects of
this projects, and along comes someone with the topic "Bacula Project
Will Die" and scolds the author of this software, saying that he's
frustrated to see the free version being destroyed by the paid for and
that it is not the way to get compensation.

It's not polite to come to someone's house, accept the kind offer of a
free meal, and then to go into the kitchen and start bossing the cook
around. Perhaps you are right and perhaps it is a language issue, but
honestly I think the person made their point very clear. I also think
that Kern has given people no reason to think that the paid software
will cannibalize the community edition and to stop supporting it... so
who needs to hear this kind of stuff?

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