Re: [webmin-l] Webmin sponsorship by OpenCountry

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Hi Grant,
If in some alternate universe Webmin did become proprietary, that would effect future versions. Older versions released before any hypothetical change in licence would be still available under the current BSD licence.

Of course, this isn't going to happen anyway :-)

 - Jamie 

-----Original Message-----

From:  "Grant Peel" <gp...@th...>
Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Webmin sponsorship by OpenCountry
Date:  Sat 10 Sep 2005 12:16 pm
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Jamie,

    Please let me be the 'enth one to congradulate you, and OpenCountry on 
the recent partnership. I am sure the arrangement will benifit all !

    The only request that I might consider submitting, is that IF, as 
unlikely as it may be, Webmin becomes somehow proprietary, that those of us 
who have it embeded in our architechture be somehow grandfathered in to the 
licensing scheme. Again, I hear you loud and clear when you say that's not 
happening, but it seemed a good time to throw that out there.

    Also, this seems an appropriate time, to, on behalf of anyone who may 
see this the way I do, to thank you for all the time you have spent 
developing Webmin and it's derivatives. Employing it has saved countless 
hours doing all the chores necessary to run a server, and, perhaps 
unwittingly, been an excellent training aid in *nix OSes and server/client 
ops. Again, thank you!

-Grant

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Webmin sponsorship by OpenCountry


Hi Everyone,
Joe is correct here - Webmin is not being aquired by OpenCountry, so there 
is no danger of the project being forked or taken out of my control.

OpenCountry benefits from the sponsorship because they include a version of 
Webmin and Usermin with their OC-Manager product. Previous sponsors have 
supported Webmin for the same reason ..

 - Jamie

-----Original Message-----

From:  Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
Subj:  Re: [webmin-l] Webmin sponsorship by OpenCountry
Date:  Sat 10 Sep 2005 6:54 am
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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,
>>

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