Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 28, 2006 10:13 PM
Ok- so we attack the message, not the messenger. IN this case it is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. I met these most of these Ximian guys at Linux world in the early Ximian Days (good Linux World give-aways and the coolest jungle hut themed booth on the floor). Red Carpet updater and Ximian Evolution were wonderful visions that they executed well... When Novell took over they spread Evolution around (good idea), but took Red Carpet to the Enterprise only side of the house and attempted to make it a Novell only proprietary solution (it was then that I suspected Novell of being up to tricks)!
Nothing against NAT or the other Ximian folks, but they are not really sticking to the original guns that they were firing back in the Ximian days... there has indeed been a MAJOR shift in the philosophy of these dudes, compared to those early days of Gnome, Evolution, and Red Carpet. Now they are corporate dudes and nothing wrong with that but down deep inside they do see the two step that Novell is playing with the wording of the current GPLv2.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 28, 2006 10:13 PMNothing against NAT or the other Ximian folks, but they are not really sticking to the original guns that they were firing back in the Ximian days... there has indeed been a MAJOR shift in the philosophy of these dudes, compared to those early days of Gnome, Evolution, and Red Carpet. Now they are corporate dudes and nothing wrong with that but down deep inside they do see the two step that Novell is playing with the wording of the current GPLv2.
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