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Re: theKompany?
by Eric Laffoon on Monday 29/Mar/2004, @12:33

First of all let me set the record straight. They do not sponsor, nor have they ever sponsored anyone to work on Quanta Plus. If they do I'm unaware of it. The two original developers I worked with decided to team up with them and produce a commercial application out of Quanta. I chose not to participate. I did not think it was a good idea. If anything my feelings about Quanta remaing free have only gotten stronger with time. Without getting into a discussion I don't want to get into I will just say that I don't think it is in their interest to to sponsor an application that effectively competes in the marketplace with one they are selling. That doesn't make any sense at all.

The only reason they have a similar name is that one of the developers rejected the idea of a different name and certainly it would be easy to mistakenly think it was an upgrade from the GPL version. Our team debated and rejected renaming the original. There is absolutely no linkage between the two programs since the split. The split came around the time I lost my mother and for me involved a lot of what I considered to be less than pleasant communications.

Right now, today, as a small business person and with the help of the community I am sponsoring two developers and making some progress on adding more. As open source projects go we have good community financial support because of our strong stance on free software and our excellent track record producing results. As it happens I have a lot more faith in people like myself supporting a cause or making an investment in a piece of software they like than in companies where there may be conflicting interests. The only software related contributions we get are from Ian Fleeton for Linux CDs he distributes. Mandrake registered me to receive contributions but fortunately I didn't hold my breath.

I acknowledge that theKompany has brought some good applications to KDE under the GPL and other licenses but our interests are not the same. It's unlikely we would ever collaborate.

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