[TriLUG] OSS exchange replacement

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Fri Jul 11 23:33:22 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 13:25, Magnus wrote:
> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 11:57 AM, Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
> > I can understand having to pay for a connector for the "closed" source
> > outlook, but the idea of having to pay for a connector for Evolution, 
> > an OSS
> > replacement for Outlook, bothers me.
> 
> I don't expect that scenario to last;  Evolution is OSS so I would not 
> be surprised to see this functionality patched in at some point as a 
> GPL connector.
> 
Unfortunately the connector is one of the major ways that Ximian makes
money on it's fine Open Source product (which I'm using right now :-).

I'm all for an Open Source connector, but I'm going to hate to see
Ximian take a financial hit.

Jon




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