[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] wow ximian
From:       Navindra Umanee <navindra () cs ! mcgill ! ca>
Date:       2001-12-04 11:04:09
[Download RAW message or body]

Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com> wrote:
> 
> 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)?

Perhaps, except that I remember the movement that was launched against
KDE painted things with a much larger brush.  And remember these are
the people who launched the *GNU* NOME desktop, with all the
associated implications of being a GNU desktop.  It had to be this way
if their marketing efforts were to be this successful.

What's interesting to me is that the GNOME founders have now all but
reneged relationship with GNU.  So what's interesting here?  They used
the GNU name to market GNOME wildly successfully (with full compliance
to the GNU ideals).  Now they almost effortlessly shed off the
relationship with GNU, with the founders now releasing proprietary
software to add insult to injury.  Can't help think there is something
to learn here.

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

Well, I wish they would wise up because I am sick of the "tension"
between many in the KDE/Linux community and theKompany.

-N.
 
_______________________________________________
This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.

Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or \
temporarily stop your subscription.


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]