Re: [OSCOM] ANN: Magnolia 3.0 Simple Enterprise Content Management released

On 22.06.2006, at 12:44, Martin Bähr wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:19:41PM +0200, Boris Kraft wrote:
>>>> The announcement clearly states that you can download the free
>>>> community edition, which is open source.
>>> Exactly, so maybe you should limit announcements to this list to
>>> releases of *that* edition.
>> It is a major release, I don't get your point.
>
> his point was that you should not mention the existance of the
> enterprise edition because it is of no interrest to this group due to
> its licensing.

I think that is outright ridiculous. Why should that be of no  
interest?  My point is that it is very very valid to send this  
announcement exactly because you find out how we try to make a  
living, and those of you that pay your salary know what that means.

If you don't like my announcement, simply delete it. I don't like to  
be kept in check by unwritten rules of what I may or may not do -  
where is your "open" spirit? I feel like I live in a dictatorship  
country, with strong censorship "no, thats not allowed" Ah, thats  
forbidden too, I am sorry", "nope, you can't do that either" ...

We had a discussion a while back on this list (when it was still  
somewhat alive) that you need to know the secret handshake to be  
recognized as a valued OSCOM member. I still feel this spirit here in  
your responses.

We recently tried a revival of OSCOM but *none* of you was even  
remotely interested to do anything in that direction. But sending an  
email that explains that additional to a great (and free) open source  
offering there is availability of other editions that provide  
additional benefits gets lots of attention.

I think that speaks volumes about the state OSCOM is in.

- Boris