Re: [Evolution] KDE Whiners

[Aaron Weber <aaron ximian com>]

See our new statement about that issue at www.ximian.com/google.php3  --
We've discussed the issue with Andreas Pour, and come to an amicable
agreement.
(I love the open lanes of communication in free software.  can you
imagine IBM and Sun agreeing 
about anything?)

a.

On 13 Feb 2001 18:03:36 +1100, James Mollison wrote:
> > Ximian bought space from Google to
> > put up their ad every time someone types KDE or Konqueror or a bunch of
> > other KDE related names into their search field, sort of like Sun
> > putting up ads on Linux sites, or Linux companies putting up ads on
> > Microsoft sites.
> >
> > The KDE babies have been grieviously offended by this and haven't
> > stopped blubbering all day.  Now they they're going to sue.  Good way to
> > get laughed out of an attorney's office.
>
> They are not going to sue.  All they said was that the advertising (the way
> it was presented on google) was unethical, and not "in the spirit" of open
> source software - (read more on http://www.granroth.org/ximian.html)
>
> Perhaps they just feel a bit overwhelmed at the tactics used, and the money
> involved.
>
> Even heavyweights like Ibm & Sun tread lightly when it comes to competing
> with other rival equivlent open-source products. Nothing wrong with
> advertising open-source products, Its just the way the Ximian adverts were
> targeted at KDE users.
>
> > My question is:  Why did Ximian take the ads down??  They should've made
> > them bigger!
>
>
>
>
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