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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] wow ximian
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2001-12-04 9:48:13
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Navindra Umanee wrote:
> 
> Amazing that they got this proprietary announcement out without any
> flammage, considering the harsh unforgiving movement against KDE/Qt
> they launched in the past.

Hiya,

There is a huge different, don't you think, between a proprietary
toolkit, upon which everything is based, and a proprietary *module* to
an Open Source application which communicates with a *proprietary
server* (bearing in mind that communication with open-source servers is
free)?

I've heard this comparision numerous times now, but it is totally unfair
IMHO.

> It's truly genius that they pulled this off, but hard to see how they
> escaped any significant public finger pointing.  TheKompany seems to
> have failed miserably in this even in the KDE community itself.
> Something to learn here.

Well, simply put, theKompany is not as "smart" as Ximian.  If theKompany
had kept Quanta Plus Open Source, but added, say, a proprietary plugin
for compatability with ASP (but kept the PHP stuff Open Source), they
would have fared well too.

Ciao,

Dre
 
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