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Re: Thanks
by Abhi on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @02:38

http://news.com.com/Novell+to+release+enhanced+Linux+in+fall/2100-7344_3-5300555.html?tag=nefd.top

I'm from India. I have seen Novell's Bangalore development center advertise for GTK developers. Think about it, KDE seems to be losing corporote support. Redhat, Sun, Novell and UserLinux. With Suse gone, I fear the clouds are looming in the horizon. boo hoo :-(

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Re: Thanks
by Anonymous on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @03:23

SUSE/Novell is not gone. And what lost development support from the others for KDE are you talking about?

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Re: Thanks
by huu on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @03:33

Problem is briefly this: corporations will only use what ever comes by default and is most supported. If i read this article correctly, KDE is losing this support - ximian guys have brainwashed management well enough. But on the other hand; how could they be this stupid, if KDE has most users?

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Re: Thanks
by Rob Kaper on Tuesday 10/Aug/2004, @00:43

Who gives a damn. Seriously.

If corporate support would be the key factor towards a useful product, I'd be running Microsoft Windows. But it isn't: KDE was useful long before corporations got interested, and will be useful for a long time after they've moved to GNOME or something else. It was never money that made KDE great, and in fact, some of the biggest screw-ups in our releases of the past were directly influenced by corporate interests.

In a world of increasing interoperability, market share is really not that important.

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Re: Thanks
by Anonymous on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @04:42

SUSE is NOT gone. The current SUSE Linux 9.2 will still default to KDE. And the same is true for all future versions of SUSE Linux:

http://linuxtoday.com/mailprint.php3?action=pv&ltsn=2004-03-31-...

However, SUSE supports both the KDE and GNOME environments in its professional and enterprise products only, Schlaeger pointed out. "We will never support anything but KDE in Personal Edition," he predicted.

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