Comment Have to pay for the developers somehow (Score 1) 395
I was wondering how long they were going to be allowing free downloads. When they were Helixcode, they used Akamai, but pushing a Gig of data to a lot of users must have cost way too much. So now it looks like they use their own colo, and some mirrors, including rpmfind, to cut costs.
This was the obvious next move. I think their product is good, yet one of the main reasons I first downloaded it a year or so ago was to get gnome 1.4, which is now in redhat 7 anyway. Evolution is a cool tool, but you have to pay for the Microsoft Exchange interface (around 60 bucks, I think it what the price is set to be once that functionality is available), so between the updates and optionaly software, it could get pricey.
But the point of a business is to make money. I see a lot on here about 'This is as bad as Microsoft' etc etc. Thats terrible. Its not like this company is making hundreds of million a year... they are trying to post a positive cash flow. Haven't there been enough articles on slashdot about online companies going bust?
This was the obvious next move. I think their product is good, yet one of the main reasons I first downloaded it a year or so ago was to get gnome 1.4, which is now in redhat 7 anyway. Evolution is a cool tool, but you have to pay for the Microsoft Exchange interface (around 60 bucks, I think it what the price is set to be once that functionality is available), so between the updates and optionaly software, it could get pricey.
But the point of a business is to make money. I see a lot on here about 'This is as bad as Microsoft' etc etc. Thats terrible. Its not like this company is making hundreds of million a year... they are trying to post a positive cash flow. Haven't there been enough articles on slashdot about online companies going bust?
