I don't know about the others here but personally I think it would be nice to have a working distribution in exchange for all the BUG TESTING we are doing for you.
Isn't that the concept of having a community version? We tell you the problem, you fix it, and charge other people for it.
You get something ... we get something too.
There are thousands of Zentyal 2.0 servers working out there, in many industries, from high schools and universities to finance companies. A few of them are even published in our website:
http://www.zentyal.com/en/products/success/We much appreciate the support and collaboration of our community, it's huge and supportive. Zentyal Server couldn't have reached 250.000 downloads in the last 12 months (almost 1.000 downloads/day in average last 3 months by the way) without your help: supporting others with doubts, finding bugs, translating Zentyal UI to dozens of different languages...
On the other hand, as any other open source company, we offer products and services around our open source product Zentyal Server: subscriptions, add-ons, tech support, consultancy and training.
However, I would like to stress that
there is not such a community version of Zentyal Server, there is only once source public code repository. If we strongly recommend subscriptions for servers in production is because of:
* First, the quality assurance (QA) for updates.
As you know, we depend on third-party open source modules included with Ubuntu Server.
Sometimes, getting updates directly from Ubuntu repositories breaks Zentyal Server, so we make sure that our paying customers get their updates from our quality-assured-packages repository.* Secondly, the different services included with them: alerts, reports, monitoring, remote administration, etc.
* And finally, tech support is only eligible in case you have a subscription.
In summary, eboxbuggy, we sincerely thank you by your help finding bugs. As you will understand, we are much interested in continuously improving Zentyal Server, because that's the same software our customers rely on.
The only point is that our paying customers have the priority on deciding what bugs are fixed first (and sometimes which new features are developed also), what might delay other stuff reported by the community, but take for granted that every bug will be squashed eventually ;-)