[XaraXtreme-dev] Let's Move Along

["frank gaude'" <tanzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally, Charles Moir's feelings about CDRAW as a binary is valid. 
Consider what has happened with Novell joining forces with Microsoft, 
and Ubuntu joining with Linspire: we see a blend of proprietary and open 
source.

What does it gain us to be pure, pure OSS? The world needs more folks 
working together to achieve a goal. Everyone has to make a living one 
way or the other. The folks at Xara Ltd. that did most of the coding to 
get Linux version to where it is deserve our thanks, even though they 
were working on salary during the time.

There is nothing like Xara on Linux. I've worked with Inkscape off and 
on and even with its latest update, Gaussian blur, and it is almost an 
embarrassment to go from using Xara to Inkscape, because of the loss of 
speed, quickness, and increase in key strokes and complexity.

So let's give Xara team a big thanks for what they have done so far, and 
ask others who have the ability to help, to please help, in creating a 
most worthy design software.

frank