Harmony developer Joel Dillon has nicely written up his reasons for ceasing work on Harmony. I cannot guarantee that we will never sue the Harmony project. Richard Stallman, meanwhile, has chimed in with a very brief note expressing his support for Harmony. There is also a petition out there for those who would like to ask Troll Tech to change the QPL to address the outstanding concerns before the final version is released. The conclusion that can be drawn from all this, unfortunately, is that the desktop wars are not yet over.
Opinions remain strong on all sides, and compromise seems unlikely.
One can only hope that this division settles into a healthy competition before too long. In fact, they've gone even further and dropped their Aqueduct relational database integration product in as well. Zope now has all the elements it needs to be positioned as the free, open source alternative to many popular commercial web development packages. You can find more out about Zope at the Zope website , which may or may not be on-line by the time we publish. In addition, the first beta release of Zope will be officially announced tomorrow, December 4th.