License question

[Jos Vos]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:

> Yeah FOSS can do anything, just "not yet" ;-) 

:-)

> Yeah lot of companies seem to use FOSS as advertising "Our Free GPL
> blabla" and with a closer look all the good features are closed source. 

Open Source is abused very often as a marketing tool.  And this is
done very intentionally, IMHO.

> Yeah especially now Fedora has a great Directory Server and with the
> upcoming Samba 4 the next thing missing is a good groupware/ERP. These
> would be the perfect features for a small business, and if those
> businesses grow they are perfect clients for Red Hat. 

I completely agree.  A few people working on the (existing) tools
from the RH/Fedora point of view would help a lot.

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