I sent three postings yesterday, but none of have appeared on the list. So here goes again.
On Sunday 31 Aug 2003 5:10 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > People, before we go tarnishing a good company due to spurious rumors, can > we please make sure that we have *ALL* of the facts straight. While it is > true and acknowledged that the Canopy Group owns SCO and they also have an > interest in Trolltech, their total investment in Trolltech is 5% of the > outstanding stock, compared to ~80% of the company being owned by > employees. Canopy has absolutely no control over what Trolltech does, > produces or the limitations thereof. > > The employees of Trolltech have worked hard to produce a superior product, > they have supported the Open Source community and have been valued > contributors to the Linux movement. Just because they have some ephemeral > connection to Canopy is absolutely no reason to start calling for boycotts > or stop using a platform. This kind of knee-jerk reaction can do > irreparable harm to members of the open-source community and if you want to > convince developers, businesses, etc. that open source is a bad investment > and will cause them greater harm than sticking with the traditional > proprietary model, I can't think of a better way to demonstrate it than to > start some knee-jerk reactions to rumors about ownership. > > At the end of the day, we need to judge a company and organization based > upon its actions, and spreading rumors, calling for negative actions is > simply playing right into the FUD covered hands of those who would like > nothing better than to see the open source community cannibalize itself. > > SCO is a very poor threat to Linux currently, but our own community is a > much greater one due to this type of reaction. Sorry, Bryan, if you thought my posting was a knee-jerk action. It wasn't meant to be. I had no idea that there was any link whatever between Trolltech and SCO until today. It came as quite a surprise! As SCO is regarded as "the bad boy" of Linux at the moment, I wondered if Trolltech should be too. That was my reason for asking opinions of other members of the list what they thought of KDE and its use of QT. I wondered if, by using KDE/Trolltech, others thought we may be giving moral support to SCO. I certainly don't want to tarnish the name of such an excellent company as KDE. Thank you for putting the record straight and explaining the Trolltech set-up. Sorry if I have offended any one- I didn't mean to, and apologies to you, KDE and Trolltech!. Cheers Keith
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