• # ya pas que Linus, et donc, c'est ptete pas une blague :

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse à la dépêche Linus s'en va ?. Évalué à 1.

    Olivier Crete, developpeur de GnomeICU est aussi
    dans ce cas, et il va etre probablement embauché par AOL qui compte embaucher Linus par la meme occcasion !!!!! bon, a vous de juger:

    Ol crete wrote:

    I just came back from Virginia, where I was at AOL's HQ.. They though our
    now v7 code was really nice and they offer me a job. I can pre-announcer
    that AOL will drop the independent ICQ client as its not making any money
    anyways and they will integrate it all into the AOL OS. Because they also
    came to the conclusion that Windows is a support nightmare and that
    Microsoft will never let them monopolize the Internet, they have decided
    to produce AOL OS. This OS will not run on that annoying, complicated, non
    standard, bugger, etc, PC hardware, but it will instead run on a new
    custom machine produced by the new AmVidia born from the merger of Nvidia
    and AMD. This will make it even easier for everyone! So easy, no wonder
    they're number one!

    Ohh, and I forgot, Linus who just retired from that Linux thing will be
    join AOL as Chief Software Architect with one goal in mind, make more
    money than BG.

    Olivier

    On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Jeremy Wise wrote:

    > Good morning all,
    >
    > I'm writing to regretfully inform you that the GnomeICU project is going
    > to have to be shut down. Apparently, since the acquisition of ICQ by
    > AOL, the idea of a free, non-advertising client just doesn't mix with
    > AOL's goals (spam the desktop, if you ask me). Anyway, AOL has written
    > me and asked that I please (hey, at least they said please ;)) remove
    > the gnomeicu website, remove the source from general public
    > availability, and ask distributions to pull the software as well. On a
    > brighter note, they say that they are working on a fully-functional
    > AIM/ICQ client for linux, which they hope to release "soon". Sadly, it
    > will have all the stupid advertisements and stuff that make windows ICQ
    > such a pain in the neck to use.
    >
    > Anyway, this project began as just a toy so I could learn some cool
    > programming tricks, and I'm really rather surprised we've stayed in the
    > game this long. Thanks for all of your support, and I hope to see you
    > around in the great GNOME programming world :)
    >
    > Sincerely,
    >
    > Jeremy Wise
    > GnomeICU Author
    >
    >
    --
    Olivier Crete
    Tester
    tester@videotron.ca
    oliviercrete@videotron.ca

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