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

Michael Wechner <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:58:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.oscom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Boris Kraft wrote:

>On 22.06.2006, at 12:44, Martin Bähr wrote:
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>>On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:19:41PM +0200, Boris Kraft wrote:
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>>>>>The announcement clearly states that you can download the free
>>>>>community edition, which is open source.
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>>>>Exactly, so maybe you should limit announcements to this list to
>>>>releases of *that* edition.
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>>>It is a major release, I don't get your point.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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" ...
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OSCOM is about Open Source, so that's a valid rule, isn't it?

So if one's software isn't Open Source, then it doesn't belong here, right?

Michi

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