[Scribus] Xara Xtreme

Benjamin Green ben
Thu Oct 13 22:24:30 CEST 2005


On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:55:06 +0100, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>  
wrote:

> frank gaude' wrote:
>
>>>
>> The Xara is going OSS and has offered to share code, team with other  
>> graphics programmers or whatever.
>
> Of course, there's OSS and there's OSS, so it remains to be seen what  
> kind of sharing they think is good. They may be looking for more help  
> than they intend to give. The Scribus list certainly documents the need  
> for more graphics manipulation possibilities. If something could connect  
> through the Scripter, or maybe connect like Gimp does now, various  
> stumbling blocks could be overcome.
>

Well, they say they are going to GPL it. There is no indication of time  
scale, and no public versioning or source files available so far as I can  
see. Their intentions seem very laudable if you read the website.

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