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Re: major distros?
by Anon on Sunday 08/Aug/2004, @08:14

I really don't think that they going to do that. Though SuSE allows to run both GNOME and KDE it is mainly a KDE distribution. I would assume that at least 90% of the SuSE Linux users are running KDE on their desktop and I'm pretty sure that most of them don't want to miss it. So if Novell would force SuSE to switch from KDE to Ximian GNOME as the default desktop choice they would risk to loose a significant portion of their customers. On the other hand Novell not only bought the KDE company SuSE they also bought Ximian. But if you look a little closer then you'll notice that they've bought Ximian for about 10 or 20 million dollars and SuSE for about 220 million dollars. Therefore, risking the larger investment would be pretty stupid.

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