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Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman

Posted by timothy on from the dances-with-monkeys dept.

Sheepish writes "OSNews features a long and interesting interview with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian Desktop 2 are included too."

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  1. Re:Good one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you liked that interview, then you will also like many other interviews.

    But you don't have to take my word for it!

  2. Ummm ... as if ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why would I use outdated Ximian 2

    When KDE is already on version 3

    obviously newer and better.

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    1. Re:Ummm ... as if ... by Squareball · · Score: 2, Funny

      Because with that logic why aren't you using Windows 2000

    2. Re:Ummm ... as if ... by Strike · · Score: 4, Funny

      Feh, my Atari 2600 walks all over that Pentium 4 AND your Windows 2000 - combined!

  3. Get with the times... by moreati · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quote: KDE has way more options (the clock properties dialog has five tabs!),
    Actually it has 6 in KDE version 3.1: General, Timezones, Plain Clock, Analogue Clock, Fuzzy Clock.
    For some reason I find that amusing. If you're going to drop some FUD, at least get your facts straight.
    I'm guessing 3.2 will have 12 or 24 depending on it's mode.

    1. Re:Get with the times... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      1. General
      2. Timezones
      3. Plain Clock
      4. Analogue Clock
      5. Fuzzy Clock

      So what is the sixth?

    2. Re:Get with the times... by moreati · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oops, I appear to have fudded in a sarcastic fudding actually meant to defud.

      OK, as the other AC correctly noted, the sixth is Digital Clock.

    3. Re:Get with the times... by Ed+Avis · · Score: 2, Funny

      6. Profit!!!

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  4. Re:Ximian Desktop on Red Hat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > the main advantage for using Ximian will not be for the home user, but for large corporations.

    Ah, that's the reason for including XMMS and other stuff. :-)

  5. Re:Shocking... by Bluesman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was more shocked they're using Emacs.

    No wonder they don't want to spend a lot of time there.

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  6. Re:I already don't like this guy. by metacosm · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are jealous that your sister is looking at other guys?

    Creepy +1!

  7. Re:Still on the .NET path to Hell by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Funny
    Please let me know if you get a sensible answer...

    I heard it was dying =)

  8. Re:Ximian and money? by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ximian subscribers get to test alpha releases.

    Slashdot subscribers get to check stories for typos and dupes.

    I think the Open Source business model needs more work...

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