Stardate 20011203.1547 (On Screen): It seems that despite itself the Linux movement is finally growing up. The angry teenager is becoming a young adult who's becoming worried about paying the bills. They released two new packages. The first,
Evolution, is an Outlook clone and it will be GPLed. The second piece is
Connector and it is an add-on which makes it so that Evolution can talk to Microsoft Exchange servers -- and Connector is being sold proprietary, binary only,
not under the GPL. The source is not being released.
But the bottom line came when I asked if [Connector] had to be proprietary because of the inclusion of proprietary Microsoft protocols or API. No, he said. "It is proprietary is because [Ximian] intends to make money from it." He added that "it is an opportunity for us to make money. This is business activity which will support us".
What a concept! Actually trying to get revenue to support operations and pay the bills and feed the employees who produced the code. Imagine that! (discuss)
The screams of outrage begin in that line off to your right.
