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Re: SuSE is DEAD!!!!!!!!!
by Aaron J. Seigo on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @08:53
it's dangerous to confuse excuses for reasons, which is what you're doing here.

TT's relationship to Qt may be one of the excuses in play (there are others i've heard) but it's not even close to the reason for how things are playing out within Novell.
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Re: SuSE is DEAD!!!!!!!!!
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @11:05
> it's dangerous to confuse excuses for reasons, which is what you're doing here.

For some part maybe, but I'm watching this from within a huge corporation that is using Linux left and right (and its gaining ground every day, big time). Currently (almost) all roads lead to G, mostly thanks to KDE not being considered 'free' desktop due to TTs control of it.
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  • Re: SuSE is DEAD!!!!!!!!!
    by anonymous on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @21:15
    <I>Currently (almost) all roads lead to G, mostly thanks to KDE not being considered 'free' desktop due to TTs control of it.</I>

    Sure, megacorps like the one you probably work for can't stand it when they can't lock in their users through proprietary software and draconian DRM schemes.

    KDE is more free than gnome because KDE is GPL and it ensures that users have the source code to make changes as they see fit. This prevents draconian DRM schemes that the backers of gnome (read: megacorps) want to use to subjugate their clientel. Any developer who works on GNOME is a fool because they are only making the problem worse by refusing to stand up to the megacorps and start licensing their programs (including libraries) as GPL.
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    • Re: SuSE is DEAD!!!!!!!!!
      by Anonymous Coward on Friday 03/Feb/2006, @00:29
      > KDE is more free than gnome because KDE is GPL

      GPL being one thing. Plus, KDE is quality code (due to Qt perhaps) that does not require you to invest eons of money to debug it to be able to use it. That's what I call free, so I agree 100%.

      But there's nothing that will make the upper management to understand this. Bugs in the software are not their problem, they can get fixed with money. Control is everything.
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  • Re: SuSE is DEAD!!!!!!!!!
    by Segedunum on Friday 03/Feb/2006, @16:46
    "For some part maybe, but I'm watching this from within a huge corporation that is using Linux left and right (and its gaining ground every day, big time). Currently (almost) all roads lead to G, mostly thanks to KDE not being considered 'free' desktop due to TTs control of it."

    Ah, yet another mythical person working inside another mythical corporation using Gnome ;-). You do realise that none of these companies care about Trolltech's relationship with KDE like you do. If that were the case they'd all be ditching Windows right, left and centre.
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