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Re: Good to hear
by Segedunum on Tuesday 08/Nov/2005, @10:27

I wouldn't go so far as to say that - I've just been pointing out what I believe to be common sense. Believe me, I'm not just sticking up for KDE for the sake of it. As far as I'm concerned KDE is an economically viable desktop environment that is more than capable of making it in the world. Novell's new COO Ron Hovsepian likes cost effectiveness and viability as well, and trust me, this guy is not going to get taken for a ride. KDE as an open source desktop, a set of applications, a development framework and support from a company like Trolltech just makes perfect sense. Doing all of that stuff takes a lot of hard work, and KDE is just economically viable as I see it, plain and simple. It's not perfect, but fundamentally it is more than good enough to overcome any obstacles and to push on with new levels of innovation, thinking and technology. Failure of open source desktops == failure of KDE and nothing else.

People then make what they will of those comments, which is usually a lot of the normal crap that makes little sense. You'd have though that after five years of consistent bollocks about KDE, and lies about what other people are doing (or not doing) you would have thought things would have changed - but no.

It's great to hear some coherent marketing happening for KDE, because basically, KDE isn't going to fall short of peoples' expectations. Most stuff actually works! It would be nice to throw some marketing material around for KDE, nice screenshots, cool technology, get ISVs who have been Windows-oriented interested (and considering the competition that's not hard) just to generally counteract 'other stuff'. Unfortunately, at times it is necessary to counteract a lot of this crap. In the run up to KDE 4 hype the damn thing to the hills, because you're not going to have to worry about it falling short.

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Re: Good to hear
by AC on Tuesday 08/Nov/2005, @10:39

Well said well said. Please join

#kde-promo

On freenode.net. Would be cool to get more people helping here.

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Re: Good to hear
by Leo S on Tuesday 08/Nov/2005, @18:51

There is a (not so) fine line between advocating and trolling. Please stick to the advocating side (you mostly do so that's good).

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Re: Good to hear
by Segedunum on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @07:09

One man's advocate is another's troll in things like this. I would just like an open source desktop that will work some time soon, and has the potential and framework to change, innovate and move things forward and does it in a way that's realistic.

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