Re: [Ekiga-list] Ekiga 3.00 available for WIN32 *only*

[Sam Lown <sam pagmas com>]

Hehehehe I actually fell for this for at least a minute!

Shareware is sooo 1990s...

Happy April Fools Day!

sam


On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 21:57 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just put the news on http://www.ekiga.org :
> 
> Due to the big popularity of the Microsoft Windows operating system
> compared to the GNU/Linux desktop, we have decided to put all our
> efforts on the WIN32 port of Ekiga.
> 
> Due to the increased amount of work and the lack of spare time, Ekiga
> 3.00 will only be released for WIN32.
> 
> While Ekiga 3.00 will stay free (as free beer), it will be the last
> version to be completely free. From Ekiga 3.20, Ekiga will become a
> shareware with a small license fee to use either Ekiga or its associated
> platform Ekiga.net. The money that it will generate will finally allow
> us to live from our project instead of spending countless hours for free
> on it.