Re: [Bacula-users] Request for help
2015-02-01 12:53:49
Hello,
You are entitled to your opinion, but I find that such opinions
don't carry as much weight as they would if you give some reason
for it.
My reason is simple: Bacula Systems has spent quite a lot of money
(over $1 Million) paying salaries to develop code for Bacula
Enterprise. It has given a very large chunk of that code
(somewhere between 50-80%) back to the community and will give
much more over time. One of the persons involved in the lawsuit
took proprietary code developed by Bacula Systems and released it
in the public Bareos git repository without authorization. He
apparently has in his possession something around an additional
100,000 lines of proprietary code that he could also release.
I have devoted most of my time since 1998 to open source and spent
15 years developing the Bacula community version, which is 100%
open source, and by creating up Bacula Systems, much more code
than I could ever create alone will be contributed to the Bacula
community project.
I believe that anyone who steals proprietary code and releases it
publicly through an open source fork (Bareos) has very poor
ethical standards and is damaging the whole open source community.
Best regards,
Kern
On 01.02.2015 18:33, Ben Erridge wrote:
As a former Bacula user I would like to express
that I do not support this lawsuit.
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