Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors

miguel writes: "Today we announced that Mitch Kapor has joined our Board of Directors. He is one of the co-founders of the EFF and Lotus (You can learn more about Mitch here.) In other news, I want to point out guys to our Latest Evolution beta which comes with SSL support (IMAP and SMTP), Pilot syncing and LDAP in the default build. The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them. What are you guys going to do about this huh? HUH?"

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What Am I Gonna Do About it Tough Guy?

[n3rd]

...and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them. What are you guys going to do about this huh? HUH?

Use KDE of course. ;)

Where is this going?

[Anonymous Coward]

KDE has long been the superior desktop. And, it's been "free" for more than a year now. I don't see why Slashdot keeps reporting on Gnome/Ximian at this point. KDE has reached the point where I honestly believe that it can do no wrong. It is the best looking Open Source desktop by far. Anything Gnome/Ximian does at this point is pure catch up.

Except they can't catch up. It is a losing battle. For every feature Miguel adds to Gnome, the KDE developpers are ten steps ahead. Just look how long it took for Gnome to get support for Anti-Aliased fonts. Well after KDE had them, and only then because the motif-like (read ugly) gtk widget library decided to support them.

The only good thing to come from GTK was the Gimp. Stop trying to use a widget library that was created for one app for everything under the sun people. It just doesn't work, and it makes yor apps look like crap!

It can do wrong in this way:

[mr_don't]

Umm, the "KDE desktop" is ugly and it looks like it has Apple IISE icons on it or something