From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 08:51:53 EDT
Hi all,
This is unrelated to the previous commit I did. But I just wanted to
let you know that I took the decision to abandon MacOS X centered
development of AbiWord. The decision is not motived by lack of interest
in AbiWord. Au contraire. I'm still motivated to help the project and
make it evolve, and I'll do that on free OSes like Linux. The decision
is purely motived by some event that occured in my professional life
making me unwilling to continue work on any Apple related stuff.
For the little story, I got hired by Apple last February as a software
engineer to work on some application they develop (iCal to not name
it). This works was completely unrelated to my current AbiWord
involvemenet and stayed like that. But on Tuesday, I got notified that
they'll break my work contract in the probation period because I was
"incompetent". I have never had any comment about the quality of my
work, and they hired me after I did 2 month of contracting for them
last year, for work they were satisfied about. After all if I hadn't
satisfied them, they wouldn't have hired me, would they ? I was really
involved in my work. I did 500 km of commuting everyday, spent 600 EUR
/ month for that (all on my own expenses), was ready at work, even when
the public transport companies where on strike, etc. Everything that I
found worthwhile to do my job correctly, because I liked my job so much.
So I decided that since Apple was treating me like this (I would have
accepted several reasons like job cut, etc., but surely not work
related), I had no reason to be a loyal customer (sort of like I was
until 1988) and offer them what could *possibly* be a killer app on
MacOS X. That way I'll spend my now copious spare time doing something
else, including looking for a new job.
Just to make sure everybody understand. I will keep the current code in
CVS so that a real maintainer can take over it. I wish him good luck.
Hub
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