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Interview With Shawn Gordon of TheKompany
Gentu writes "OSNews features an interview with Shawn Gordon, president of TheKompany. Shawn talks about version 1.0 of Aethera and Kapital coming out in September, porting a lot of their Qt apps to MacOSX, the future of Linux on the desktop, how the embedded Linux market was surprisingly successful financially for them, as well as selling well their desktop apps. It is really encouraging to read that a desktop-oriented company actually made real money from Linux this year!"
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It hurts and stuff, won't it please stop?!?
Yep.
Kan't the Kompany Konjure up a KBETTER KFREAKING KSPELLING?!?!?!
btw fp, nitches
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first *5* posts were AC.
fuckers!
Yea, it's cool that people are making money at it. But I don't think that it is as hope-generating as some people might first believe. Wide scale acceptance is where a stable market will come from, not 'sneaking it in when they're not looking'.
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that a company that can't even spell "company" correctly could make money. Did they go through a "Venture Kapital" firm to raise enough "Kash" to for initial operating expenses?
One thing which does get left out in these kind of reviews/articles is about space/resources taken by that particular app. Lets say i'm running aethera (just an example) , I find that there are a lot of processes running in the background. What is the logic behind using something that's hogs down resources and shows nothing but "eye candy" ?. Will like to know people's view on this :), of course there are some tradeoffs but is it worth it (no hard feelings to the Kompany of course)
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"It is really encouraging to read that a desktop-oriented company actually made real money from Linux this year!"
Oh yeah, it's cool to make money. Give me a break, you Linux guys hate for people to get paid for work. Unless it's you, then you won't touch a job for less than 100k a year.
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'Twas the night before Goatse, when all through the house
Not a penis was stirring, not even with mouth;
The Giver was hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Goatse soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of anal-sex danced in their heads;
And Katz in his 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a fuck in the sack.
When up in my anus there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see Katz start to splatter.
Away to the bathroom I flew like a flash,
Tore open my anus and looked at the gash.
The moon in the glass had a vibrant red glow
Gave the lustre of sunset to my nutsack below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer!
With a little old driver, so lively and quickse,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Goatse.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, TACO! now, JAMIE! now, MICHEAL and TIMMY!
On, CHRISD! on HEMOS! on, PUDGEY and CLIFFY!
To the top of the ass! fronts to the the wall!
Now pound away! pound away! pound away all!"
As faggots that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with a hetero, mount the next guy,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of sex-toys, and Goatse pics too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The moaning and pawing of each little poof.
As I drew in my ass, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Goatse came with a bound.
He was dressed as a furry, from his head to his feet,
And his clothes were all tarnished with urine and shit;
A bundle of sex-toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a hooker just flapping his sack.
His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His ass cheeks like roses, his cock like a cherry!
His cute little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his scrotum as white as the snow;
The stump of a blunt he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and was a bit smelly,
He shook, when he wanked like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him beat off himself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings with smelly big turds,
He layed a big log right under my nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like a fucking great missile.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"HAPPY GOATSE TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"
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As opposed to what sort of programmers were working on it before? ;-)
So much to do, so little bandwidth.
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'Twas the night before Goatse, when all through the house
Not a penis was stirring, not even with mouth;
The Giver was hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Goatse soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of anal-sex danced in their heads;
And Katz in his 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a fuck in the sack.
When up in my anus there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see Katz start to splatter.
Away to the bathroom I flew like a flash,
Tore open my anus and looked at the gash.
The moon in the glass had a vibrant red glow
Gave the lustre of sunset to my nutsack below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer!
With a little old driver, so lively and quickse,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Goatse.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
"Now, TACO! now, JAMIE! now, MICHEAL and TIMMY!
On, CHRISD! on HEMOS! on, PUDGEY and CLIFFY!
To the top of the ass! fronts to the the wall!
Now pound away! pound away! pound away all!"
As faggots that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with a hetero, mount the next guy,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of sex-toys, and Goatse pics too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The moaning and pawing of each little poof.
As I drew in my ass, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Goatse came with a bound.
He was dressed as a furry, from his head to his feet,
And his clothes were all tarnished with urine and shit;
A bundle of sex-toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a hooker just flapping his sack.
His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His ass cheeks like roses, his cock like a cherry!
His cute little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his scrotum as white as the snow;
The stump of a blunt he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and was a bit smelly,
He shook, when he wanked like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him beat off himself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings with smelly big turds,
He layed a big log right under my nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like a fucking great missile.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"HAPPY GOATSE TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!"
It is indeed refreshing to see that a Linux-based software company is making quality applications, and more importantly, making money.
The other thing I enjoyed seeing is that they are starting to get their products into retail stores and that Linux and Windows versions are "one box, one price", allowing people to migrate between the two and keep the app they paid for. Nice!
Hopefully they keep up the good work, come out with some very nice apps and make the transition to Linux that much easier.
Maybe they should come up with a QT Office suite (KOffice?) with for-pay MS Word filters and then migrate people over to Linux cause their software will still run.
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This addresses one of my major gripes about switching to OS X; there are few apps to choose from, and they all cost an arm & a leg.
I never knew The Kompany was selling OS X stuff so I am definitely going to have to go check them out. If this allows me to standardize on apps between Linux and OS X then I will be a happy man. Also if I get a good QuickBooks alternative (Lord, I hate how they nickle & dime you to death for simple stuff like emailing invoices to your clients) I would be able to permanently power down my sole remaining Windows box.
TheKompany has great demos for all of their products (including what looks to be a CD -> Ogg ripper) at ftp://ftp.rygannon.com/pub/ (sorry only 6 users at a time).
I'm looking forward to Rekall to be a cross-platform MS Access replacement (python as the scripting language over VBA rocks).
I really like how everything that this kompany does has a kool name and always spellz their stuff. It's like those poseurs who think that writing Amerika is some how kounter kulture.
Fucking sellout.
Is it too much to ask that the blurbs on Slashdot's frontpage should explain what a software package does, instead of just citing the name as if everyone should magically be familiar with them all?
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The number one most useful product they could offer OS X users right now is a port of the Connector!
Microsoft has stonewalled on delivering a native Exchange client for Mac OS X. In fact, according to a recent posting on Macintouch (scroll down to the second or third message), their official recommendation is that you set up a separate PC and use the new Remote Desktop client to access it!
Here at NIH, we want to move to OS X soon but the lack of a native Outlook client is really going to hurt us. If Evolution+Connector were available instead, we would likely take a serious look at spending some serious money on it.
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
I was an early adopter of Kapital. Seems like over a year now, I am not sure. I had been using Linux exclusively since 1996 and only used windows for Quicken/TurboTax since it had all my financial data since 1993. The early beat versions of Kapital were very encouraging but the most amazing thing was the damn near heroic effort to get a program like Kapital to work on the ZILLIONS of different Linux distributions. Anyone who thinks Linux has a chance on the mainstream desktop needs to look at the mailing list logs for kapital, and the many replies from Shawn regarding difficulties in those areas. Simply amazing. Linux isn't going to Fork like the major Unices did in the 80's, it already HAS.
Blackadder has been in the works for quite a while......... Still waiting to see how it'll do as a Ruby IDE.
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I think this is a good example of a company that has successfully brought products to Linux and has made money on the platform. It demonstrates that there is infact a market for commercial software on Linux and *hopefully* will cause other software companies such as Macromedia, Adobe, Intuit, etc al to invest the money necessary to port their applications to Linux.
How do we know they made money? The article said nothing about profits, and it's not a publically treaded company.
The Aethera screenshots remind me of the dreaded Lotus Notes interface. I'm hoping it doesn't suck like Notes does from a UI/usability standpoint.
Is there a particular reason that *every* geek (including this guy) has to have a goatee, and most of them are overweight? Do all geeks want to look like clones of each other? Do they want everybody to know they're geeks? I can easily pick out geeks in public... overweight, goatees, no clothes style, and usually a phone worn externally. Also, it's got to be really hard to get laid looking like that.
Many PC users want a native version of OS X, but Apple hasn't delivered. Native ipod support would be good too, but Apple never delivered there either (although third parties have). Their official recomendation is that you buy yourself a mac in the color of your choice.
Not much of a difference here, it's companies trying to push their own propreitary products (wether it be windows or mac hardware/software)
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Apparently you haven't been keeping up with the latest RDF emmissions from Cupertino. Maybe you should go check out http://www.apple.com/ipod?
... how the embedded Linux market was surprisingly successful financially for them,
I think it should be "how the embedded Linux market was a surprisingly financial success for them" maybe the author intended: "how the embedded Linux market was surprisingly financially successful for them". The latter just doesn't seem fluent.
"... desktop-oriented company actually made real money from Linux this year!" I think it should be "real money with Linux this year".
They were *selling* applications based on a beta version of the Qt library.
Never mind the philosophical debates on software quality, and ethics. Is it even legal to sell an application that uses a beta version of a library? Must be.. - I guess TrollTech doesn't care much about anything, either.
I absolutely give up. You creatures are completely hopeless.
Is it too much to ask that the blurbs on Slashdot's frontpage should explain what a software package does, instead of just citing the name as if everyone should magically be familiar with them all?
What is Linux, can someone explain what is QT? And this MacOSX, I've never heard of it. Can you show a little consideration and explain every little detail? I am too lazy to google, or even click the handy link provided in the blurb.
Sheesh people. If you click the link for the Kompany, the product/project links for Kapital and Aethera are on the front page. You are literally two finger-flicks of the mouse away from the info you want. How can you be so lazy that you can't do your own clicking?
um,
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Go troll somewhere else with your "mac in the color of your choice" comments.
-- james
> The number one most useful product they could offer OS X users right now is a port of the Connector [ximian.com]!
Nice idea, wrong company. Maybe you didn't notice, but Shawn Gordon works for TheKompany, not Ximian.
He is talking about Aethera, and comparing it to Ximian's Evolution. It really strikes me that their User Interface designer has never seen Outlook, the most used email client. He should IMHO. I heartly agree on not having to clone Outlook, but you need to take a look at what people are used to, just as a reference. And a lot of the potential users of Aethera are now using Outlook.
That said, I should probably add that I have never seen Outlook myself but I am not a UI designer for an email client ;-)
I was not aware they were offering ipod software for windows now. This is obviously a new development.
Claiming my post is a troll though is pretty pathetic, the other points I mentioned still stand.
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
In terms of comparing [Aethera] to Evolution, they both are at the heart email/PIM applications. We differ initially in the fact that ours will run on Linux and Windows
So does he mean 'will' as in 'in the future' or 'it will run today' on Windows? Native version, or this one of those 'install Cygwin' things?
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LSB does not cover Qt nor KDE, environments that Kapital depends on.
If you look at the amount of engineering Apple has been throwing at the PIMesque components of Jaguar (namely the substantially upgraded Mail.app, the new Address Book and iSync), I'd say the most likely point of origin for Outlook interopability is Apple themselves. They seem to be doing some of the backend work too, with the expansion of their directory services plugin stuff on at the infrastructure level.
I just bought Kapital, and when I initially was debating it I had a few questions. Shawn answered them personally ..over the course of a few mails.
:)
I had some problems compiling under Gentoo ("can't find -lkdeprint"), but their developers have been working with me... and have been very helpful and informative.
So far I am more than impressed with how they operate as a business, and look foward to doing business with them again...
If you are considering them, you won't be sorry if you decide to do business with them
-Brendan (http://www.spaga.org)
I though they were going to do a zaurus port of Aether... or is that just more marketing drivel? The mail client on the zaurus sucks hard. Lying bitches.
Is spelling things wrong supposed to be cool? Becuase if it is, the Kash and Karry down the street is cooler than the Kiddie Kountry day care down the block.
Enough spelling things wrong. It's not cool. It just looks stupid.
I was gonna say that.
mod the Coward up.
I wonder why Ximian does not do any cross platform software. I guess they are more of a consultancey than a retail business and they seem to be doing well enough at it.
Maybe with the move to gtk2 they and other linux only projects will start to do both Gnome2 and GTK2 builds and offer applications for more platforms. (more likely is that people will just get Gnome to run on more platforms).
Gentu uncontiously slips into Polish Notation/Yoda mode...
I tried to make a FreeBSD port of Aethera, and discovered, it is impossible.
The Aethera's supposedly source tarball comes with a few binary libraries. At least one of them, according to the Kompany, is not "open-sourced". Since the binaries available are only for Linux/x86, all other platforms are left out...
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Yeah, this is a day late, but I just downloaded the latest available Aethera, and it doesn't support IMAP. It's part of the configuration setup, but you can see messages in the command line area being passed back and "IMAP4::getMail() is not supported" is one of them (or something similar to that).
This much-lauded email/PIM thing is about to become 1.0 - still mostly aimed at geeks - and doesn't support IMAP? I don't get it.
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