On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:17:00PM -0400, Ricky Zhou wrote: > On 2010-04-21 02:43:04 PM, Jonathan Nalley wrote: > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/ > > > > Also partially seen and re-titled here: > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7046/1/ > Some comments: > > > Tentative plans are already being made to phase out complete .ISO > > downloads in favor of BFO. > I'd check with Mike McGrath about this, but I have heard of no such > plans. > > > ... but Fedora is doing users a disservice by not specifying > > immediately that the app is backing up files to Amazon S3. > *snip* > > However, if Fedora 13 is remembered for anything, it may be for the > > same reason that its rival, Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx is remembered -- as > > the release in which commercialization became embedded in the free > > desktop. > This is really starting to twist things. Déjà Dup is nothing more than > a graphical frontend to Duplicity which happens to have a menu option > supporting Amazon S3 (along with options for backing up over SSH or to > another local directory). Duplicity supports S3 itself, and has been in > Fedora for a while now. > > Zarafa, on the other hand, is just some open source groupware software > that happens to be developed by a company. > > Does anybody with some time want to do some extra research into some of > this and send a comment to the author? A bunch of us already did this; thanks to everyone who pitched in cordially and without flaming. :-) Also, interestingly Joe Brockmeier posted this rebuttal, which shows the other side of the coin: http://ostatic.com/blog/linux-shedding-indie-status-is-a-good-thing -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
