Customer vs Company

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:32:07PM +0100, Alaric B. Snell was heard to remark:
> 
> Under my Debian system, all the GNOME IDL files are under /usr/share/idl. 
> Check out gnome-pim.idl! It defines vCard as CORBA structs then an interface 
> for a really primitive address book server:
> 
>   typedef sequence<vCard> vCard_seq;
>   
>   interface vCard_server {
>     vCard_seq get_records ();
>     
>     vCard get_record (in string UID);
>     void set_record (in string UID, in vCard record);
>   };
> 

Except gnome-pim is dead; the guys who worked on that went on to
do evolution as the follow-on next-gen replacement.


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