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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: Open Request to KDE and Gnome for plugin support
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () sci ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2001-05-31 22:52:28
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> I have been in contact with Bynari about this and explained some of the APIs
> that are already in place. Since the interesting parts of their software are
> unlikely to become open source I don't expect that many KDE developers will
> rush out to add support for that.

The original press statement doesn't seem to say much at all. Certainly
the paraphrase Richard Bos posted seems like a load of hot air. So -- from
the PIM camp -- I'm pretty skeptical.

> It does show that it is important to have an extendable PIM architecture in
> place and that it is beneficial to have a common interface for those things.
> But we already knew that of course.

Which makes a call-for-kde-pim-conference maybe more important. It seems
that a lot of important players are slowly accumulating in europe and Dan
(Pilone) seems to be willing to come out as well later in the summer. This
kind of thing needs to be hashed out once and for all.


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