Ximian Connector 1.0 Available

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Ximian Connector is out! Regardless if you don't like open source and Microsoft playing together this will let me ditch my Win2k box at work! Here is the press release. Of note, MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well, works wonderfully in Galeon." kittenslietome adds a link to the license under which it's released as well: Connector is not Free software, but rather software Ximian hopes will pay for further Free software development.

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We will NOT stand for this!!!

[somethingwicked]

MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well

AC or no AC, we demand to know the true identity of a Slashdot poster who would DARE make such a positive M$ comment. And on the front page? Timothy must have been duped... Sacrilege!!!

---Your friends, the Slashdotologists---

Hooray!

[gruntvald]

I can now replace my proprietary software with, uh, proprietary software.

Re:We got steel tariffs, but we need GPL tariffs t

[Salsaman]

the particular case in question was the requirement that we remove the SQUID proxy server

If you were just *using* Squid, there would obviously have been no need to GPL any other code.

Presumably, the fact that you were forced to get rid of it, means that you were in some way using the code from squid and building a derivative product from it. Your company should have realised that when they took the squid code and started developing it. If they didn't, then they clearly did not understand the GPL. If they'd wanted to avoid this, they could have simply written their own proxy from scratch, and released it under whatever licence they wanted.

Re:It's not just proprietary software

[[AraGorn]]

The first rule of Ximian Connector Club is you do not talk about Ximian Connector Club.

The second rule of Ximian Connector Club is you do not talk about Ximian Connector Club.

Re:Can't ditch my Win2k box just yet.

[codingOgre]

If you have Solaris X back IE for Solaris to your Linux box.

IE for Solaris