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