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Beryl and Compiz merging? haven’t followed the lists myself, but i’m for it if it’s realistic
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“Does 4 hours and 47 minutes of downtime for blogger.com over-estimate or under-estimate the availability of myblog.blogspot.com?” – good question, don’t know the answer
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thanks, Bill – much appreciate the kind words, but trust me – r0ml and Simon’s presentations were far better
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“JeOS seems like it might remove the distinction between openVZ-like os partition and full-system virtualization (VMWare).” – count me as an interested party
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positive press for both Google Apps and Zimbra
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“Please, someone package it alright, if the licence is DFSG-compatible (I have not checked). If it’s not, I think we should coerce the developers into making it such. After all, we’re Debian.” 😉
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more on this later, but longtime readers will probably guess that i’m a huge, massive supporter of this idea
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James says:
April 3, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Zimbra is a good example of a company that’s providing a technically open source product, but is hardly an open source company. They ship a whole bunch of third-party software (OpenLDAP, postfix, mysql, clamav, sasl, tomcat) rather than working out how to integrate into existing systems, despite saying for more than a year that they’d like to: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181
But the real deal-breaker, even ignoring the questionable license, is “can I build it from source?”, *source* being an important part of “open source”. In Zimbra’s case, the answer is no, particularly when their instructions don’t work and you have to rely on someone else’s attempts:
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Building_the_software_yourself
Hell, even the Gentoo install procedure involves setting up a Debian chroot http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Building_Zimbra_on_Gentoo
Compare this to zenoss, which also ships its own zope and python, but a) expects people to build from source b) is far more receptive to the community packing their software so it fits in with the distro: http://blog.zenoss.com/
Maybe I’m being a bit harsh on Zimbra, but they really don’t seem to be engaging with the community much. Oh, and their sourceforge SVN repository is just synced from a private repo, so the commit messages are all “Automatic update”.