I'm glad Ilya answered first, or I would have thought that maybe I'm stuck in an opinion without letting reality check in.
Peter wrote: > As expected, Novell, at the moment, are a fish in a barrel. Once you decided that the MS&Novell deal is unholy, anything they do is, in your eyes, an evil manifestation of said unholiness. > Maybe 'dropped' is not the right term for 'Hula'. It was, er, debased > (like having the carpet pulled out from underneath it) ? Well, the thing is that I have never heard of Hula before today. I have never considered it when I needed such a capability in the past. According to what Ilya says, this is no accident on my part. I don't see anything here that cannot be easily explained by a simple economical decision (i.e. - cost effectiveness of continued development does not justify continued work on the project). A little over a year ago I made the same decision regarding Lingnu efforts in PgOleDb. And yet, I have, surprisingly, no unholy alliance with Microsoft (that I'm aware of). > > http://forge.novell.com/pipermail/hula-general/2006-November/002084.html > > As expected, a prolific unholy alliance will give birth to many > offspring. Stand by for more news on this channel. I think this will be the true lacmus test for this statement. If we start seeing mass cancellation of investment in FOSS projects, then I can say you may have a point. Canceling one staggering project does not count as "mass" in my book. > I hope that Novell and the Hula people will have the presence of mind > to keep frozen CVS entries until when (or rather after) the current > love affair with M$ ends and Hula will be needed again. Not only do they seem to keep the entries, they did not even pull the project from the web. Code already written is still available. The web page is still up. The developer in question made every attempt to say that there will still be Novell employees working on it non-full time (presumably, on their own time). Add to that the fact that the software is, still, free, and I'm finding it a bit hard to find what the fuss is about. A few years ago a new Linux distribution came along. It was called "Lindows", and it promised to use Wine in order to run your existing Windows applications on it. A couple of years later the company decided that Wine was not getting there, and stopped sponsoring any more work on it. Is that also an evil thing to do? In conclusion, I think that this email is a bit paranoid. > Peter Shachar P.s. Since some of the list's administrators have seemed to jump those guns in the past, threatening actions, I would like to clarify that though I think that Peter's email is paranoid, I have no reason to believe that Peter himself is paranoid. -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
