On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 22:08, Nat Friedman wrote: > On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:09, Stephen Witkop wrote: > > The only problem that I have with this is the timing. Ximian Connector > > has obviously been planned for some time, so why wasn't it laid out > > along with all the other plans for evolution. It just makes it seem as > > though Ximian was afraid they would lose support among developers and > > users so they didn't announce anything until they had what they wanted. > > I'm not saying that's what they were actually doing but that's certainly > > the way it seems. > > I can see how it might seem that way. A big component of the timing was > not wanting to announce it before we could start demoing it and giving > out evaluation copies to potential customers. We weren't trying to > trick anyone, but we didn't want to announce it and then ask people who > wanted to buy it to wait 6 months before they could see a demo :-). >
Thanks for the explanation Nat, being open and not taking comments like mine as flames goes a long ways since they were only made out of concern for Ximian's long term success. Stephen _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
