The end of Dovecot Director?

Tom Sommer mail at tomsommer.dk
Wed Nov 2 07:53:15 UTC 2022


On 2022-11-01 16:58, Mark Moseley wrote:

> This *feels" to me like a parent company looking to remove features 
> from the open source version in order to add feature differentiation to 
> the paid version.
> 
> I've loved the Dovecot project for over a decade and a half. And 
> incidentally I have a very warm spot in my heart for Timo and Aki, 
> thanks to Dovecot and especially this mailing list.
> 
> I've also loved the PowerDNS project for a decade and a half, so this 
> removal of _existing functionality_ is doubly worrisome. I'd like both 
> projects to be monetisable and profitable enough to their parent so 
> that they continue on for a very, very long time.
> 
> But removing long-standing features is a bad look. Please reconsider 
> this decision.

Big +1

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Tom


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