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Intel and Novell Become Patrons of KDE

Posted by Francis Giannaros on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @04:14
from the money-helping-kde dept.
Intel and Novell have both become corporate Patrons of KDE. Their exceptional financial commitment to the KDE e.V. helps the project with community events, infrastructure and developer meetings. Read on for more information.

For decades, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Intel has been a strong supporter of KDE and other free software projects in the past, and it continues this effort by becoming a Patron of KDE.

Novell is a global leader in open, enterprise class software and services; it is also the company behind the openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise products. Novell has persistently been among the strongest supporters of KDE by employing many KDE developers and continuously sponsoring events. It now reaffirms its commitment financially by being the first corporate Linux distributor to become a Patron of KDE.

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dependency
by Hannes Hauswedell on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @04:54

good to see that you get more money, but please stay independent and dont be afraid to critisize your sponsors when it becomes obvious that freedom is left behind on the path to profit.

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Re: dependency by Sebastian Kügler on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @05:03

Re: dependency by Ben on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @23:52

Re: dependency by Mat on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @03:54

Re: dependency by Gerry on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @06:30

Re: dependency by binner on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @09:24

Go Home Novell
by Debian User on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @06:37

Does doing good compensate for the bad? No, I don't think so. Giving money to KDE is nothing when you stick with Microsoft to kill ODF.

Many thanks to the Suse founders, but what a pity you sold out. I guess those guys should get KDE awards one day, they did the most to push KDE back then.

Yours,
Kay

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Re: Go Home Novell by Debian User on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @06:38

Re: Go Home Novell by Dolphin-fanatic :) on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:15

Re: Go Home Novell by apokryphos on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @10:44

Re: Go Home Novell by Maurizio Monge on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @14:43

Re: Go Home Novell by MamiyaOtaru on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @21:05

Re: Go Home Novell by Maurizio Monge on Wednesday 11/Jul/2007, @05:49

Re: Go Home Novell by Sutoka on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:33

Not a surprise by Henry Miller on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @09:15

Re: Go Home Novell by Francis Giannaros (apokryphos) on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @10:32

Re: Go Home Novell by Debian User on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @10:39

Re: Go Home Novell by apokryphos on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @15:10

Re: Go Home Novell by Me on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @07:56

Intel C++ compiler
by reihal on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @06:44

Does this mean that it is politically correct to compile KDE with Intels C++ compiler?
Can it be done, have anyone tried?

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/277618.htm

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A sad state of affairs
by Artem S. Tashkinov on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @06:47

Let me express my point of view.

I don't really care about "Their exceptional financial commitment to the KDE e.V. helps the project with community events, infrastructure and developer meetings" because for more than ten years we can successfully and effectively communicate over the web.

What KDE really needs is developers. IMO, Intel and Novell should have hired ten full time active developers and that would greatly improve the pace of development and overall quality of the project.

Right now (judging from KDE commit digests) KDE has only _ten_ active developers. It makes me feel disappointed. Consider more than three hundred developers who worked just on Vista user interface.

Don't get me wrong, but I see KDE project slowly dying. The main cause of that is the strict conditions of Qt library license. Most ISV want to cut their expenses when there's a talk about porting their software from Windows to Linux. So far, we see that most distros and ISV have chosen LGPL'ed GTK library. I know only two (!) commercial software pieces based on Qt: Opera and Parallels Workstation. Other software has been built over GTK/Motif/wxWidgets/etc.

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Re: A sad state of affairs by Henrik Pauli on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:15

Re: A sad state of affairs by Leo S on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @09:24

Re: A sad state of affairs by Kevin Krammer on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @03:39

Re: A sad^Wexcellent state of affairs by Sebastian Kügler on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:32

Re: A sad^Wexcellent state of affairs by Artem S. Tashkinov on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:37

Re: A sad state of affairs by insulae on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:40
Re: A sad state of affairs by Foxy on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:48

Re: A sad state of affairs by bert on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:52

Re: A sad state of affairs by Foxy on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:03

Re: A sad state of affairs by Leo S on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @09:27

Re: A sad state of affairs by Sutoka on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:32
Re: A sad state of affairs by James Richard Tyrer on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @19:27

Re: A sad state of affairs by Ben on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @00:00

Re: A sad state of affairs by scratching my head on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @04:22

Re: A sad state of affairs by Artem S. Tashkinov on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:33

Re: A sad state of affairs by AC on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @07:41

Re: A sad state of affairs by Kevin Krammer on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:04

Re: A sad state of affairs by Artem S. Tashkinov on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @08:32

Re: A sad state of affairs by Dan on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @09:40
Re: A sad state of affairs by cm on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @11:20

Re: A sad state of affairs by cm on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @10:48

Re: A sad state of affairs by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:08

Re: A sad state of affairs by Stu Warsnap on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:14

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:25

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:37
Re: A sad state of affairs by LiquidFire on Friday 13/Jul/2007, @11:21

myth # 1 : companies are porting sw to linux by v m on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @18:28
truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by v m on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @18:50

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by reihal on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @00:12

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by codeofjustice on Monday 05/Nov/2007, @19:50

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by binner on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @00:35

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by doh on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @02:30

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by binner on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @04:17

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by v m on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @04:06

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by v m on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @04:24

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by binner on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @04:27
Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by Mauricio Piacentini on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @17:56

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by binner on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @04:25

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by Artem S. Tashkinov on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @22:59

Re: truth about RH, novell, ubuntu, gnome, fsf by binner on Friday 13/Jul/2007, @01:31

Re: A sad state of affairs by Troy Unrau on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @10:21

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @10:34

Re: A sad state of affairs by vm on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @14:10
Re: A sad state of affairs by Thiago Macieira on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @13:49

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @13:55

Re: A sad state of affairs by Artem S. Tashkinov on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @23:03

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Thursday 12/Jul/2007, @23:42

Re: A sad state of affairs by Anon on Friday 13/Jul/2007, @00:59

Novell
by Henrik Pauli on Saturday 07/Jul/2007, @07:18

Interesting to see Novell there. I hope they'll behave :)

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This is no bashing.
by fear on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @06:52

Sorry for my limited english.

It is an excellent idea to get KDE running on Windows (my significant other, a Windows user, *adores* the Konqueror) and Novell will support you to get things done, but I am paranoid because of the Novell-Microsoft-Deal.

Will the Novell-Microsoft-Deal affect the developement of KDE?

How will Microsofts refusal, to acknowledge the GPLv3, affect KDE?

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Re: This is no bashing. by apokryphos on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @08:29

Re: This is no bashing. by fear on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @11:46

Re: This is no bashing. by Kevin Kofler on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @23:53

Re: This is no bashing. by jospoortvliet on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @08:09

Re: This is no bashing. by apokryphos on Monday 09/Jul/2007, @15:17

Re: This is no bashing. by fear on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @01:58

linux pclinuxos2007
by jeagle1255 on Saturday 14/Jul/2007, @12:16

i do love this pclinu to the ones that worked on this good job to all worked on it and thanks

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