From kde-promo Tue Feb 26 00:23:54 2002 From: Jono Bacon Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:23:54 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] today's Gnossip X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=101468324914516 On Monday 25 February 2002 7:08 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2002 02:40 am, Jono Bacon wrote: > > I am more than happy to contribute to these efforts. Although GNOME m= ay > > have the money from Sun and support from Ximian - I only really see S= un a > > a real thing to be concerned about - I feel Ximian will go the same w= ay > > as Eazel. > > No, I don't think so. Ximian positions itself more as development partn= er > and is or will be able to draw revenue from that. They can still outspe= nd > themselves but they seem to have the business side of things much bette= r > covered than Eazel ever had. I disagree - I feel that Ximian don't have a solid business plan - they d= on't=20 appear to have a clear product path; sure they contribute to GNOME and th= ey=20 have developed Evolution, the Exchange plugin and some setup tools - but=20 where do they actually get revenue - maybe it is just a business model th= at=20 has yet to prove itself to me. Nontheless...Ximian's role in GNOME development is still important in tha= t=20 commercially orientated things may get in there before the equivilent in = KDE.=20 I do feel though that the purist approach to KDE with no sworn in leaders= and=20 such is better in the long run; also KDE is fundamentally simpler for man= y=20 users - hence it's adoption by many distros. =09Jono _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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.