Marius Andreiana wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 00:25 -0500, Andrew Choens wrote:I would beg to differ any argument that this was a troll. It was simply a thought and I was curious to see if others had thought about it.
This is just a thought I have had. I remember reading a while back that RH bought the rights to the old Netscape Server code. FC3 includes Fire Fox and Thunder Bird. I wonder if this is an attempt to eventually wean RH from Evolution which is now controlled by Novell.
How is it controlled? It's GPL. Same as OpenOffice it's developed^H^H^H^Hcontrolled by Sun?
I think cross platform applications are really a good thing for Browsers, Email, etc.
it also brings lower usability for linux users. Look at MS tools, all integrated. GNOME / KDE it's the same, e.g. can save browser passwords in gnome keyring, together with other passwords. OOo it's getting better (gtk, native file-open dialog...). Evolution calendar it's integrated with gnome clock applet, and so on. Little things which together make a great desktop.
Are we looking at a split here?
no, only at a troll
Evolution is Open Sourced, but the server back-end that Novell uses is not. Although there are some open source servers out there already, Red Hat did just buy the old Netscape Server, which should be really easy to integrate back into Fire Fox and Thunderbird. Mozilla.org and OO.o have opened discussions to integrate their work more, and mozilla has had the same conversation with the GNOME developers which could easily lead to key ring integration.
If Novell continues to push Mono, which it will, more and more apps will appear using mono. I agree with Red Hat that Mono isn't really a safe option because of potential conflict with MS. When I proposed the idea of split, I wasn't trying to infer that this would necessarily be bad. The Mozilla stack will mature quickly (you're right, at this time they are NOT a capable replacement) and it just seems like Red Hat could position itself to offer a vertical stack based on the Netscape System, integrated into GNOME. This would lead to more choice in the market, which is a good thing.....hmm, aren't trolls usually negative?
