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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by Carbon on Wednesday 16/Jan/2002, @00:20

No, to further clarify, the enemy is closed source software, and in particular closed source software that hurts the software industry (and thus, computer science in general). If M$ open sourced all their apps tomorrow, they would become pretty popular with me. I still wouldn't use their software unless it became much better (UNIX just has a better design, imho) but that would help everyone in general.

Sheesh, M$ would still make a killing doing tech support, certification, and selling copies of the manual to OEMs, not to mention their game console, various perhiperals, and other misc. stuff.

KDE isn't really about competiton anyways. Ask any developer (btw, I'm not a developer personally, beyond submitting a few bug reports, but I hang out in #kde occasionally) and they'll probably tell you a few of :

- Because coding is fun
- Because I want to help UNIX become a better desktop platform
- Because I wanted a particular feature that was missing, and just plain added it myself

But most of all...

- Because Konqi is just so dang cute!

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