In the news: Zarafa

[Nelson Marques]

I see much much stuff around Zarafa and miss to see great pieces of FOSS
engineering like Nouveau, ATI drivers (no longer experimental?), Mesa
7.8.

Are we providing free ammunition to the people and failing into
highlight real FOSS featured software?



On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 21:01 +0200, Joerg Simon wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 20. April 2010 19:47:22 schrieb Jan Wildeboer:
> > Now I am not in the "told you so" department, but it unfolds as I expected.
> > Not much we can do now without harming either Fedora or Zarafa.
> 
> Harm? This sounds dramatized. Fedora is in the press with zarafa as a feature 
> - and we disussed pro and contra already a lot. 
> 
> It is easy to oppose and disagree on new contributions - i know that it is 
> part of your job at Red Hat to be a "pain" to non-FOSS Vendors ;) - but Fedora 
> is about enable and encourage people to contribute and i want to see that 
> Press, Users,  - the world - get the right message - i already explained in 
> detail why it is good that a community driven feature should advertised [1]
> 
> Clarification and truth have nothing to do with harming - it is about enlighten 
> them and evangelize them to spread it right. We talk about FOSS Software here 
> and it seems Paul clarified things already to the author. 
> 
> cu Joerg
> 
> [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2010-April/012472.html
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