Last news from Charles:

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Charles Moir wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 10:51 PM:
Right now with no active development of the Xara LX open source base going on, I think talk about cooperation or merging Inkscape / Xara is premature. The lack of active open source development is partly because Xara staff can't, because we're focussed on commercial releases right now, and partly that it needs someone to work on interfacing Cairo in place of CDraw.

We've said we'd help anyone willing to do the Cairo interfacing work and would host the resulting project. We would like to see active development return to the product. But I get the feeling the demand / interest for the Linux version is not great enough to attract open source developers willing to put time into it.

So we're now considering a commercial release, as has been discussed here. This might be a way in which we can pay the developers to spend time continuing on the product.

Charles
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source: XaraXtreme Developer Mailing-List

Both, Xara Ltd. and "the Community" learned some lessons from this project and in my eyes, it's a wise decision to stop it now.

Regards,
Remi