"It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; if
that is true, one would expect the Tomboy developers to be
flattered indeed. But a web log entry about the Tomboy 0.14.1
release made it clear that "flattered" may not be the operative
word in the Tomboy camp:
""Our stance on Gnote is that it is counterproductive to
maintain identical software in two languages. It will be harmful to
the community, especially as these two apps inevitably diverge. It
will result in duplication of effort, duplication of bugs, and a
lot of wasted time for those who are trying to add value to the
user experience.
""Tomboy is not going away, and it will continue to be developed
on the extremely productive Mono/GTK# language platform. Anyone
thinking about distributing Gnote should consider the impact on
users and their data. When we develop, we should always be asking
ourselves, "is this adding value for our users?""
