Re: [Fwd: Re: [Nautilus-list] paypal]

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgbr terra com br>]

just a few observations about your comments:

- GNOME doesn't (or shouldn't) depend on _any_ company to survive.
without ximian and eazel things will go slower, but will go;
- Ximian does more than Evolution. They pay people to mantain bonobo and
other projects that are part of GNOME. Having said that, i agree that
Evolution shouldn't be an Outlook clone.


On 21 Apr 2001 13:46:10 -0400, Andrew Post wrote:
> Ximian and Eazel are just about the last two companies left that care
> about Linux on the desktop. RedHat's Matthew Szulik was quoted in the
> current issue of Linux Magazine as saying about RedHat's decision not to
> buy Corel, "...Microsoft had 92 percent of that category. We didn't
> think it was a very forward-looking category. A lot of smarter people
> than us fought that war and lost." Most of GNOME's other financial
> contributors (IBM, Sun, etc.) don't care much for the desktop either. I
> hope that Eazel (or at least its developers) can hold on. GNOME as a
> desktop platform is pretty much dead otherwise, since Ximian doesn't
> have a desktop to write apps for without an actively maintained
> Nautilus. Plus, Eazel is the only GNOME company I've seen anything
> _original_ out of. Yes, we do need a component architecture and an
> Outlook clone, but if that's all that GNOME has to offer on the desktop,
> why not just use Win2K?
> 
> Andrew
> 
> Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> > 
> > On 21 Apr 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > 
> > > On 20 Apr 2001 17:27:27 -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> > > > on 4/20/01 4:43 PM, Watson at demoryw pacbell net wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have signed up for a paypal account but before I send any actual money
> > > > > I want to confirm that it was really going to eazel.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it's really Eazel.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I need to follow up. I'm about to open a paypal account, but I
> > > have a question: What will happen to the donated money if it's not
> > > possible to keep eazel afloat? Will it go to some Free Software
> > > organisation or will it simply disappear?
> > 
> > I believe that once you donate the money, they will be used
> > in any case for the purposes of Eazel.
> > 
> > Thus, before donating, you should think if during the time you have spent
> > on Nautilus you managed to get something back in the form of
> > knowledge, experience or something else, then valuate what you got
> > and make a donation depending on that value.
> > Doing this, you will not lose in any case.
> > 
> > simos
> > 
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