In the news: Zarafa

[Nelson Marques]

I do love how the journalist starts the article on
itmanagement.earthweb.com.

Nelson Marques
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/evilclown.htm

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 09:04 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> So, Zarafa is getting a lot of press attention:
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298
> 
> some of it is fairly unflattering:
> 
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/Fedora-13-Beta-The-Seen-and-Troubling-Unseen.htm
> 
> I'm a bit uncomfortable with this myself; the availability of Zarafa in
> Fedora seems to be being read in ways in which we certainly didn't
> intend it (as an aspect of commercialization, as some kind of Red
> Hat-parachuted feature and hence an indication of RH's future
> directions, etc).
> 
> I'm wondering if perhaps we should pull Zarafa's mention as a 'feature'
> of Fedora 13, or if not that, then certainly develop a more coherent
> story about its inclusion, what it's for, why it's in Fedora, and the
> whole 'open core' angle on it...
> 
> What do people think?
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
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