Ximian Acquired By Novell

You don't know what you are talking about and that is very evident. Half of your statements above are false, yet support your argument. The other half support everyone else's arguement.

1. But people would pay if it were the best client - people pay for Outlook on Windows and it is arguably not the best.

2. Yeah, I made that point elsewhere on the page. Ximian would have to do the same. Thanks for the support.

3. Yet another case where you support everyone else's arguments.

4. He didn't suggest they did, you suggest they will close it without realizing that they need to either get a copyright assignment from others to change the license or explicit permission to relicense it. I doubt most contributors would approve of a move to a closed source license for their code.

5. You have a history of modding things to your benefit. He called you on it, get over it.

6. If you want to bet the guy, at least provide an email address that works - I tried it once before and it repeatedly bounced.

If this were really a concern, do you think Miguel and company would even consider it? Doubtful. In order for Novell/Ximian to accomplish the closing of Evolution, they would have to rewrite any contributed code or collect copyright assignments from every contributor and they have not done that. Ximian doesn't own all the copyrights, some, but not all. That is how the GPL and copyright law works.

If you are going to argue with everyone, please make sure you know the topic or don't do it. You've been told several times before by half the people here. And stop contradicting yourself. If I write code, it is the copyright is implicitly assigned to me. Same with this comment, same with a letter or almost any work. It is only in cases where a copyright assignment was agreed to for the work in question or where explicitly stated prior to the work being done. Look below on the footer of this page. It says "The comments are property of their posters." That is copyright assignment.

:-)

Cheers,

Erick