[kroupware] About mozilla calendar ...

[Bo Thorsen]

On Sunday 19 January 2003 22:25, Manuel Hoppe wrote:
> Im very interested in the Kolab Server, but without a wide support
> within the community all different groupware solutions are nothing
> worth at all. I think there is no need for proprietary servers.

Just because something is not "widely supported within the community"=20
doesn't mean it's proprietary??? Why whould you claim such a thing?

Anyway, there have been so many attempts at free software groupware=20
solutions that people are generally scheptic about someone claiming to=20
have something. What we're doing is to provide the first implementation=20
and then it's up to the community to embrace it or not.

We can't force community support down the communitys throat.

Sorry to sound a bit harsh here, but that was a pretty hard statement you=20
gave :-(

> I know that those diskussions are old and Im aware that its projects
> aims on a single solution. But I think its time for more collaboration
> between such projects like Mozilla.org and OpenOffice.org and so on and
> think about the time after the project.

I don't mind repeating this again: We are concerned about the KDE client,=20
the server and Outlook integration. Beyond this, I really hope other=20
projects like Evolution, Mozilla, OO... pick it up. We're here if they=20
have any questions we can help them with.

But we're not going to provide code to these projects, and I have=20
difficulty understanding why you should think we should do this. When=20
Mozilla made their calendar, were you there to say they failed unless=20
they made sure that KOrganizer could work with it?

The community support comes from the individual projects, not from us.=20
That is the way it has always worked.

> The integration in KDE is virtually native, so there no chance of
> domination of one product.

I don't care about domination of one project over the other or not. I'm=20
using the KDE client, so I worry about that, and that there's nothing on=20
the KDE client side that prevents cooperation with other clients. If one=20
of the other projects have some problem with the KDE client behaviour,=20
I'll fix that.

Bo.

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