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Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adding-more-monkeys dept.

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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  1. What Am I Gonna Do About it Tough Guy? by n3rd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...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. ;)

    1. Re:What Am I Gonna Do About it Tough Guy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Use KDE of course. ;)


      Have you ever tried using the Koran for TP? Actually, the Koran is better suited for lining bird cages and cleaning up pig shit.

  2. Re:They should have elected... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    jackass

  3. Where is this going? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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!

  4. It can do wrong in this way: by mr_don't · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

  5. KDE users just can't keep there mouth shut. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    percentage of really immature comments about KDE in every news that has any connection to Gnome:
    at least 20%
    Percentage of really immature comments about Gnome in every news that has any connnection to KDE:
    at most 10%

    Either, KDE has really immature users, or all the moderators prefer KDE and don't moderate all those totally meaningless trolls.

  6. Re:Evolution progress is crucial! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    get the fuck out of here. what is this based on? miguel's bullshit about reporting bugs. I'll give anyone a thousand to one that these guys never implement any usuable .net product. a thousand to one.

  7. Re:They should have elected... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We must die with the plane for Allah! FOR ALLAH!!!

  8. The beginning of my long protracted penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    .. is being rammed into your asshole.

  9. Dipshit mods by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF? How was the parent offtopic? How fucking stupid are you guys?

  10. Re:Previous Doubts... Lifted? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Never really "up my alley", huh? I think we all know what that's a metaphor for. Linus Turdwads is giving you hot ass love, isn't he?

  11. Re:Okay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck you, nigger.

  12. Re:I'd Love to be able to use Ximian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You'll also have my dick in your mouth.

  13. Re:Evolution progress is crucial! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    of all the gnome/kde stuff last few days, I think the response from the community is that gnome sucks cock! and kde r00les!@!@#

  14. Re:Evolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    gnome sux
    use kde

  15. Re:Features & Extensibility of Evolution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i suggest that you use (in the order of preference) mutt, kmail, sylpheed, or even pine.

    if you use that bloated gnome crap like evolution or balsa, then you will be permanenty scarred for life.

    blackbox - the elegant window manager