From koffice Tue Sep 26 09:33:44 2000 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:33:44 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Response to Dennis E. Powell X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=96996082323814 On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, John Califf wrote: | Dennis, I did read the Shawn Gordon interview very carefully. You did an | excellent interview and showed great skills as an interviewer in getting | your subject to open up. You need not apologize for the interview | because you did your job too well. | | | I don't think Shawn Gordon is evil, only human. It is only human to want | to have control over what you invest in. In the interview he clearly | indicated a desire for that kind of control over what he's paying for. | This is not a matter of my not wanting to get along, for Christ's sake, | but of whether independent developers will feel like contributing to a | commercial (though open) project without getting paid. I certainly | won't. John, You are free, ABSOLUTELY FREE, to start your own project, either Commercial or Open-Source, based on KOffice. Are you ready? I would say, that we need KOffice now (3 month time), not in one or 2 years later. And I suggest, it's great that somebody took care about it. | | The fact is that activity on this list has been lacking, and I am sorry koffice-devel started recently. I haven't subscribed yet, as it's not clear where to subscribe. Koffice-devel, pls advise. | for being a provocateur but the focus needs to be moved back to this | list, and away from commercial channels. If this contiues KOffice will | effectively become a commercial open source project, as more and more | activity moves away from Kde and this list and into commercial | management. I don't want that to happen. It will become another | Mozilla. It's spirit will die. see another mail from me - KDE/Windows/Free Society About Mozilla. I agree. It's really disappointment. And the way it's managed - one of the reasons. || | John Califf -- Vadim Plessky KDE, a friendly face of Linux http://kde2.newmail.ru