On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The new stable release of Sarge comes with Evolution. I was wondering > what the difference was between The "Sarge" Evolution and "Novell's" > Evolution. Novell owns Evolution, right? What is the difference between > the two? Does Novell's version have more, up to date, and better > features? Is Novell offering their version for free? Somebody set me > straight... =)
Novell owns the rights to Evolution now. It's still basically the same program it's always been. I don't remember exactly which version was the first real "Novell" version, but I think that most (if not all) of the 2.x versions have been Novell. One of the REALLY nice things that Novell did when they got the rights to everything was to GPL the Exchange plugin. With that all of the major components of Evolution are now fully free. It was thanks to that move that I was able to finally ditch my Windows box at work altogether (only used it for Outlook anyway) and have a pure Debian desktop at work. Hope that clears things up. Just holler if you have any more questions. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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