unfortunately bigmudcake, I don't think this is the case.
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Also, do the people in this thread really think that the employees of Zimbra would simply walk away from a product their have spend countless hours of dedication on. The fact is, there is nothing to stop the employees or ex employees to continue development of the Open Source version.
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But Zimbra is not licensed under a true opensource license, it's under a badgeware license. The entire frontend, and most of the backend contains license obligations to display prominently, on every page, the Zimbra logo. Microsoft would potentially own this trademark.
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Even in worse case, if MS/Yahoo deal goes through then it would still be at least 2 years before development would cease (thats even if it would cease), allowing for 1 year for the battle to takeover, 6 months for regulatory approval, 6 months for MS to get plans into action.
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And what if Yahoo caves into shareholder/legal pressure and submits to takeover next week? Given that neither company has anywhere vaguely near majority market share in any relevent area, I don't hold out much hope for regulatory approval either taking much time or helping zimbra out.
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Now, given that Zimbra is already years ahead of its competion , you are looking to at least 4 years of useability. And by that stage you would do a review anyway.
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Are you suggesting companies should continue to use 4-year old software which very shortly would be guaranteed to be riddled with security holes?