Tim, you may rub it in as much as you like - there is egg all over my face for being sucked in on this joke.
However, I did think (at the time) that it was relevant to this list, as there has been some mention of the issues raised in the list. To finish this ... thread, you may be interested to read the following page: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html Derek. ===================================================== On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Musson wrote: > Derek Smithies, 2004-04-04 21:31:14: > > As for the truth of the move of GM to QT - I don't know. > > Damien Sandras has not owned up to the april 1 joke. Time will tell. > > When the maintainer of a core GNOME app posts a sentence like this to > the development list on April Fool's Day... > > "Major companies are now moving from GTK+ to QT, because QT is simply > better, more robust, more powerful, nicer..." > > ...not a lot of time should be necessary ;) > > You added: > > "See the point:: QT is the way to go for guis." > > Based on a joke, and posted to a list where some people probably won't > be so sure, that's kinda unfair press, I think. (And that's why I'm > being a bit of a pain.) > > Anyways - here's the thread in question: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-devel-list/2004-April/msg00000.html > > > Best regards, > > Tim > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
