On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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They used to have a proprietary edition and demanded copyright control but now they have moved to a model of proprietary plugins without copyright control. Ideally, we will get everything as Free software but this is a significant improvement over what was before. I don't think syslog-ng even without the proprietary plugins is crippleware. It is quite useful on its own but ultimately this debate is obsolete now that all mainstream distributions led by Fedora have picked up rsyslog as default.
Rahul
Peter Czanik wrote:I completely understand why you want to defend your project and why you
> OSE is nothing near to being a crippleware. Most features arrive
> simultaneously to OSE and PE (like support for the new syslog spec,
> etc.) or appear in PE first and then migrated quickly to OSE (like SSL
> and database support). Automatic testing of PE also helped to fix more
> bugs in OSE than the community ever did. So the time and energy spent on
> PE automagically helps to improve the OSE too.
think your way of doing it is different. The thing is, most if not all of
the people who do "Open Core" crippleware try to justify themselves that
way. (It's always THEIR project which is alleged to be completely different
from all the others.) But the facts speak clear: you (the company you work
for) sell a proprietary edition which intentionally has more features than
the Free one, ergo the Free one is deliberately crippled.
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They used to have a proprietary edition and demanded copyright control but now they have moved to a model of proprietary plugins without copyright control. Ideally, we will get everything as Free software but this is a significant improvement over what was before. I don't think syslog-ng even without the proprietary plugins is crippleware. It is quite useful on its own but ultimately this debate is obsolete now that all mainstream distributions led by Fedora have picked up rsyslog as default.
Rahul
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