Re: [Evolution] KDE Whiners

[Tim Hanson <tjhanson home com>]

Ah.  You gave away the store. 

Aaron Weber wrote:
> 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?)

It looks to me like the communication all goes one way.  It also teaches
the KDE team that if they cry loud enough they will get their way.

> 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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