Re: Re: Reply To: Sodipodi / *nkscape...

Hello!

Tobias Jakobs kirjutas R, 27.02.2004 kell 22:48:
> I think that was normal PR and in every News was the sentence "Inkscape
> is a Sodipodi fork." And that is even PR for Sodipodi. This was not 
> against Sodipodi.

Maybe initially. I did not follow it very closely back then.
But what I see now is powerful branding everywhere.

> > I had personally hoped to start making money
> >   working on it, 
> How?

Hmmm... so making money with FS/OSS brand is hpoeless :-(

> > - The for was from the start not so much about technical
> >   disagreements, 
> 
> No technical disagreements? 
> C++ vs. C
> SVG vs. perhaps something else
> GTK vs. "gtk is to slow perhaps I will something new"

As I alrady told to Uraeus - show me single specific solution
(patch or reasonably elaborated spec), that was well-behaving
and got rejected because of extra library dependencies? Or the
same of extra SVG compliance. Or where I have told, that anything
cannot be incorporated, because it was C++?
KDE frontend is in C++ and brings up heck a lot of libraries,
and it is still there.

> Advertising is for OSS as important as for proprietary software and it
> always was. Think about Linux vs. BSD ...

It is more complex in OSS/FS. Important for what? What are
the goals that advertizing helps to achieve?

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski




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