Re: [webmin-l] Webmin sponsorship by OpenCountry

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

I know I'm not the one this was directed at, but I'll comment anyway, 
because I think a couple of points are relevant:

Sponsorships like this have happened in the past for Webmin (Caldera and 
MSCLinux).  Webmin came out the other side stronger, and with Jamie 
still firmly in control.

Webmin is Jamie and Jamie is Webmin.  There is no one else who could 
fork Webmin with any success.  The momentum is behind the core Webmin, 
and Jamie is so much faster/better than any other developer in the 
Webmin community (I say this without hesitation, and I'm one of those 
developers, and have been coding for Webmin for over five years...but 
there's just no comparison between myself and Jamie).

Just some thoughts...

Barry wrote:
> Hi Jamie -
> 
> This is interesting news as I have met Michael Grove personally though
> various non-Linux related Entrepreneur activities in Silicon Valley. His
> company is intriguing to me, and so is webmin, given my experience at
> the early stages of Cobalt Networks managing the international versions
> of the products.
> 
> I wonder if you are aware of, and care to comment on why this type of
> positive announcement can flow out of the association of a pure OS
> product with a money making organization, while your countrymates at
> Miro nearly simultaneously so botched a similar transaction with Mambo
> (now called joomla) that it led to a project fork.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Hi Webmin users,
>>
>> I'm glad to announce that the development of Webmin is now being 
>> sponsored by Open Country.  This will allow me to concentrate more on 
>> core Webmin development, and should result in a faster pace of 
>> development, new features and hopefully fewer bugs.
>>
>> There will be no change to the licensing or availability of Webmin, 
>> and development will still continue in the same way and direction that 
>> it has up to now.
>>
>> Open Country is a Silicon Valley company that does systems management 
>> solutions for the enterprise.  Its products complement Webmin and are 
>> oriented towards large installation systems management.  As a Webmin 
>> user, you should find them interesting and useful.
>>
>> I'd like to thank Open Country for their sponsorship and for their 
>> commitment to open source software.  More details on the sponsorship can
>> be found at: http://www.webmin.com/index9.html  You can find more out
>> about them at Open Country's website http://www.opencountry.com
>>
>> - Jamie
>>
>>
>>
>>
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