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Sun Increases Commitment to GNOME

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-lot-of-commitment dept.

Ur@eus writes "Mark McLoughlin of Sun mailed the gnome-hackers mailing-list today announcing the deal between Sun, Ximian and Wipro. The deal means that Wipro will assign up to 50 people to work on GNOME including hackers, QA people, documenters and more. These hackers come in addition to the Sun hackers already working on GNOME at their Desktop Division in Ireland. The official announcement from Sun will come in a few days."

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  1. Is anyone else confused by this? by oooooops · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay, let me be sure I understand this - Miguel and his gnomies wanna base GNOME on MONO which is an open source implementation of .NET - which was developed to compete with Sun's Java - and Sun's throwing developers at this? No wonder why they are hurting so bad right now at Sun - wake up and smell the java Sun...

    1. Re:Is anyone else confused by this? by flacco · · Score: 3, Funny
      So there is a lot of love for different companies and technologies.

      It's that rough anal sex from Microsoft I could do without.

      --
      pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
    2. Re:Is anyone else confused by this? by dhogaza · · Score: 2, Funny

      MS has been notorious for late delivery (the NT replacement of the DOS Windows derivatives was originally scheduled for what, 1999? 2001, that's for sure).

      Therefore WinXP must be 1) open source and 2) non-commercial.

      Very cool ...

  2. Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bugfixing GNOME modules to meet Sun's quality standards.

    Man, let me catch my breath - I can't stop laughing. I guess I've dealt with too many Sun C++ compiler bugs and Java bugs over they years, so I'm a bit skeptical.