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Urban Myth
by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Monday 04/Mar/2002, @23:26
Well Redhat said, they thought distributing KDE was illegal. They then skipped KDE in a few distributions and sponsored GNOME as a replacement for their commercial sucky "Looking Glass" Desktop. They basically fell for Miguel de Icazas propaganda and also wanted to have total control over the desktop environment development, which they would never have with KDE.
There might also have been anti-European prejudice and NIH-syndrome involved. I digress.

Basically, they proved that the license issue was not the reason for their GNOME support was not the KDE license by including KDE back into Redhat (because of Mandrake) before the license isssue had been resolved.

Until this day the Redhat KDE is always a neglected, badly compiled and buggy part of their distribution and it is also the reason why in Europe nobody is seriously considering Redhat for desktop use. SuSE and Mandrake rule here.
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Re: Urban Myth
by lol on Tuesday 05/Mar/2002, @03:17
1 troll point for you
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Re: Urban Myth
by ac on Tuesday 05/Mar/2002, @10:11
Badly compiled and buggy? Then why are all these companies using KDE with Red Hat?
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    by ac on Tuesday 05/Mar/2002, @14:03
    Because they are based in the US and Redhat has a big presence in the US?
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  • yes, BADLY compiled and BUGGY. Here's why.
    by Eduardo on Sunday 10/Mar/2002, @23:16
    Yes, badly compiled and buggy indeed. Horribly buggy. Want to see proof? Go here:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54220

    This is a bug renders most european keyboards UNUSABLE. If you use RedHat with KDE, you'd better not try to use deadkeys or writing in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, and the like. This bug have been present in pre-7.2 RawHide, then got into 7.2, and got through an errata that updated KDE to 2.2.2, to no avail. IT IS STILL OPEN. Red Hat is denying us something as simple and essential as the ability to write our own language.

    That is why Moritz' criticism of RedHat releases of KDE as buggy and badly compiled are right on target. It is just too obvious that KDE support in Red Hat is just laughable.

    BTW, I am part of the KDE 3.0 Spanish translation effort. Needless to say, this bug has made my KBabel experience far more "pleasant".

    PLEASE RED HAT, GET A CLUE!
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