Opinion: Evolution's days on Fedora Numbered?

[Andrew Choens]

Marius Andreiana wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 00:25 -0500, Andrew Choens wrote:
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>>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. 
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>How is it controlled? It's GPL. Same as OpenOffice it's
>developed^H^H^H^Hcontrolled by Sun?
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>>I think cross platform applications are 
>>really a good thing for Browsers, Email, etc.
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>it also brings lower usability for linux users. Look at MS tools, all
>integrated. GNOME / KDE it's the same, e.g. can save browser passwords
>in gnome keyring, together with other passwords. OOo it's getting better
>(gtk, native file-open dialog...). Evolution calendar it's integrated
>with gnome clock applet, and so on. Little things which together make a
>great desktop.
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>>Are we looking at a split here?
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>no, only at a troll
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I would beg to differ any argument that this was a troll.  It was simply 
a thought and I was curious to see if others had thought about it.

Evolution is Open Sourced, but the server back-end that Novell uses is 
not.  Although there are some open source servers out there already, Red 
Hat did just buy the old Netscape Server, which should be really easy to 
integrate back into Fire Fox and Thunderbird.  Mozilla.org and OO.o have 
opened discussions to integrate their work more, and mozilla has had the 
same conversation with the GNOME developers which could easily lead to 
key ring integration.

If Novell continues to push Mono, which it will, more and more apps will 
appear using mono.  I agree with Red Hat that Mono isn't really a safe 
option because of potential conflict with MS.  When I proposed the idea 
of split, I wasn't trying to infer that this would necessarily be bad.  
The Mozilla stack will mature quickly (you're right, at this time they 
are NOT a capable replacement) and it just seems like Red Hat could 
position itself to offer a vertical stack based on the Netscape System, 
integrated into GNOME.  This would lead to more choice in the market, 
which is a good thing.....hmm, aren't trolls usually negative?