Dovecot Oy merger with Open-Xchange AG

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mit, 2015-04-01 at 14:42 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 01.04.2015 um 14:33 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
> > On Mit, 2015-04-01 at 13:07 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >> 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)
> >
> > FWIW the context were large "old-school" corps (like Novell or Oracle)
> > taking over free software companies.
> >
> >> that is simple not true - if it would be true linux distributions would
> >
> > Define "true Linux distribution".
> 
> who the fuck was talking abiut "true Linux distribution"?

Ooops, sry, misread that ("," could help ....).
Actually, the whole area/discussion IMHO too versatile to invalidate (or
validate) anything with just one example - not everything is white or
black ...
One had to look at each situation and the circumstances/conditions/...
(and there is no excuse for companies to fix a bugs paid by their
customers and "forget" to send them upstream - if only to get a
confirmation on the quality).

> >> not include half baken and aplha quality sofwtare again and again in
> >> stable releases because "the market out there"
> >
> > That's everywhere in the commercial world the problem with "delivery vs
> > quality/known problems" and someone's decision to ship or not to ship -
> > based in whatever feels appropriate.
> 
> and in the opensource world too - so shwat

Usually a maintainer has no direct pressure on "shipping"/releasing. And
sometimes one actually ships known bugs if only to motivate the ones who
should fix the bugs and one doesn't want to become hostage of some lazy
contributors;-)

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Kind regards,
	Bernd
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