Opinion: Evolution's days on Fedora Numbered?

[Andrew Choens]

This is just a thought I have had.  I remember reading a while back that 
RH bought the rights to the old Netscape Server code.  FC3 includes Fire 
Fox and Thunder Bird.  I wonder if this is an attempt to eventually wean 
RH from Evolution which is now controlled by Novell.  After-all, if the 
Netscape Server works well, which it seems to since it was once quite 
popular, then FF and TBird, combined with the fledgling Sunbird (which 
I'm sure will grow up quickly) could be another option for Linux Users, 
as well as Windows users.  I think cross platform applications are 
really a good thing for Browsers, Email, etc.

I searched on the develepors list for Fedora and didn't find anything to 
back up this thought.  I'm sure other people have thought of this before 
me.  I personally think it could be a good thing, but I'm curious to 
know what other people think.

I think we might start to see a real separation between 
Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian and NLD because of the potential conflict over Evo 
and also over Mono.  Red Hat seems to be against Mono because of the 
potential for conflict with M$.  Novell, which controls Ximian and thus 
has a lot of influence on the direction of GNOME, has decided to go 
after it full force.  I wonder if this could lead to an eventual split 
in the GNOME community, since apps like Beagle are being written 
specifically to run on top of Mono.  This is a great new technilogy that 
FC can't take advantage ofm unless installed as a 3rd party rpm.  You 
can bet that Evolution will eventually incorporate .NET.  Are we looking 
at a split here?

--andy