Re: Arabeyes & Open Source

[Mohamed Eldesoky <arabi at hotpop dot com>]

Looking to my calendar
This is 1st april
Fools day
:))
nice game kuru

Mohamed Eldesoky
Linux-Egypt.org

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 1:44 pm, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> What? Why is this? What's the problem? This is really a bad news :((( I
> won't agree at all with this. Please give us more information on the
> reasons for this!!!
> I sacrificed my job, for the sake of helping in Linux Arabization and
> spend all my time trying to improve my skills just for the sake of
> helping Linux and Arabic spreak around the Arabian countries.... :(
>
> Can't we do anything about it? If it needs more funds, maybe we can take
> it. If it needs time, we can save more time for it, but changeing the
> approach to CLOSED-SOURCE this way is KILLING!!!
>
> I almost had a hard-heart-arrack when I read the email!! Please don't do
> this to us...
> Even if we (myself at least) didn't contribute well, but at least we
> tried our best, and still I would try my best to keep it going.
>
> Please, Mr. ElZubeir give us more information about this.. and let's all
> decide as we do usually.
>
> regards,
> Ossama Khayat
>
> Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> >Salam,
> >
> >After seeing how the Arabeyes has progressed throughout the last couple
> >years+,
> >we have had some interest from some private investors to take over the
> >project.
> >
> >Starting from next month, the project will be Closed Source and hand
> >over
> >its assets to the new investor (who has asked to remain anonymous at
> >this
> >time). All work that has been done so far will remain Open Source and
> >anyone
> >can continue to work on. However, further development will be closed
> >source.
> >
> >We thank you all for your hard work and efforts in making this project
> >such
> >a success.
> >
> >Thank you.
>
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