Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG

[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.04.2015 um 13:04 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
> IMHO the larger the corporation is, the less are the chances for
> *long-term* benefits of the OSS/free software (mainly because: usually
> commercial success is driven and defined from marketing to sales[1] sown
> to the techies which are forced into "features" and "delivery dates" to
> achieve some "company defined goal" - and that is usually not "bug
> free", "safe", or the like. Free software/OSS just happens that *at
> least* half of it should come from the "working level" and that is - at
> least - much more - ahemm - "inconvenient" for sales people)

that is simple not true - if it would be true linux distributions would 
not include half baken and aplha quality sofwtare again and again in 
stable releases because "the market out there"

the *possible* long-term benefits are more time to invest because a 
fixed income

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