I don't understand the problem with the YPL and the web UI branding. At worst, you need to give credit to "powered by Zimbra." You're giving credit to the original community. This is a problem for Debian sticklers, but even Debian has Iceweasel. And Ubuntu ships Firefox.
Absolute worst case, I could see Zimbra becoming a project of the Apache or Mozilla foundations, or some consortium of universities, presuming that key folks who left Stanford for Zimbra are able to return. Universities wouldn't be as well off as they would be with continuing support from Zimbra, but they'd still be better off than they would be with Exchange or Cyrus (which they're already self-supporting).
Microsoft could choose to kill the Outlook connector, but they could have done that already, and I don't see that as a huge loss. |