[Fwd: KDevelop changes]

[Catalin Climov]

----- Original Message -----
From: Micko Roland <Roland.Micko at icn.siemens.de>
To: <kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 9:43 AM
Subject: AW: [Fwd: KDevelop changes]


Even so Ralf didn't commented this and Markus and some other find this
discussion boring, I just want to make a statement to get some personal
clarification.
If I understood the first paragraph correctly, the goal of Shawn Gordon is
to take the current KDevelop, change it and insert a plug in support. As he
takes the current KDevelop he is unable to leave the OPEN SOURCE, but the
plug ins will not be published under OPEN SOURCE, so he can get some money
of it. If I'm right, also I hope that I'm not, IMHO forget to design a new
KDevelop together with them. Because then their only goal is to use the OPEN
SOURCE community to get a stable release of a product and afterwards make
money with it :-(.

Well, you almost got the point :-). But:
1. We will sell the Cobol compiler we have. It's our right to do that.
2. We will not sell KDevelop. In fact, KDevelop will be just a commodity for
Cobol developers. The compiler will work without KDev, as well.
3. We have not decided yet whether the plugin will be open source or not.
Without the compiler, it will be useless, anyway :-).
4. It's about common interests. If KDevelop team and The Kompany have common
interests, then we should cooperate.

XXL.

Roland Micko
ICN CA MR EG 2

SIEMENS AG
Hofmannstr. 51
81359 München

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ralf Nolden [SMTP:Ralf.Nolden at post.rwth-aachen.de]
> Gesendet am: Samstag, 2. Oktober 1999 09:29
> An: kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
> Betreff: [Fwd: KDevelop changes]
>
> Shawn Gordon wrote:
> Hi all,
> got this message this morning and want to send this uncommented, so the
> others know about everything that's going on.
>
> Ralf
>
> >
> > Hi Ralf,
> >
> > Catalin contacted the KDevelop group on my behalf.  My company is
> > working on an IDE for a project and thought that we would embrace the
> > open source model as much as possible to the point where we need to
> > create plug-ins to make money off of.
> >
> > Daniel Duly (Mosfet) does work with us, and had also tried to contact
> > Sandy for a period of time.  I'm glad to see that we should be able to
> > find common ground to provide a robust development environment back to
> > the community.  My company's real work will begin when that is done and
> > won't have any affect on KDevelop anymore.
> >
> > Jo Dillon is also in our group until he starts up with the Trolls late
> > next month.  He is very up on CORBA and such, but given the current
> > state of flux on CORBA implementation in KDE 2.0, it is starting to get
> > us seriously delayed for our goals.
> >
> > My company is financing several individuals both full and part time.
> > Catalin has been doing exceptional work in building a project outline
> > and fully understanding what we want to accomplish.
> >
> > I guess you could break this into three groups.  You and the other corde
> > Kdevelop developers, my group of developers, and everyone else that
> > wants to get involved.  We would like to start as soon as possible, so
> > what do you think I/we can do to help get things rolling and organized?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Shawn Gordon
> > President
> > The Kompany.com
>