Resending... ----- Forwarded message from Linas Vepstas <linas linas org>, linas linas org ----- Subject: Re: guadec & gnucash To: Dave Peticolas <dave krondo com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:52:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Linas Vepstas <linas linas org> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL87 (25)] It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said: > Linas, I'm resending this because it bounced the first time. more kernel bugs ... > The recent LWN writeup of guadec at: > > http://www.lwn.net/2001/0412/a/guadec-report-2001.php3 > > contained this: > > What is in GNOME Office? > > The following applications are clearly within the domain of an > office suite as the market is currently defined (by Microsoft and > its customers) and have expressed the desire to be part of GNOME > Office: > > - Gnumeric [ spreadsheet ] > - AbiWord [ word processor ] > - Guppi [ charting and graphing ] > - Dia [ diagramming ] > > GnuCash, I am told, has expressed the active desire _not_ to be > considered part of GNOME Office. > > Is this our position? Sort of. We asked for our own install-menu item at the same level as other major components, instead of getting buried. I'm not sure how that request mutatated into the above statements. It was a stock PR request: since Gnumatic is pouring gobs of money into development, it wanted to get a higher, more prominent billing. Basically, Ximian and Eazel get all the glory, and Gnumatic gets nada (although this is partly because Gnumatic hasn't hired expensive PR people, and done the news media road show). I suppose some may ask 'why should gnumatic get top billing just because its a company, while all these other people are working really hard for free, shouldn't they get equal billing?' The obvious answer is that if Gnumatic can enjoy some amount of commercial success, get some real income, it would be happy to hire any number of the lead developers of other free software projects, so that they could do what they like, and get paid for it. So, yes, trying to get top billing for gnucash is crass and commercial, but hey, it *is* GPL'ed, and Gnumatic *is* trying to pay coders to develop the thing. I'm willing to trade commercialism if we can get more income, more people coding on a salary and having more fun doing it. --linas ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Linas Vepstas -- linas linas org -- http://linas.org/
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