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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

Promised.

I think having more corporate sponsors is good because it shows exactly this independence (which is also a core strength of the KDE community). Not being dependant on one or the other vendor is extremely important to us, and to the way we work.

The reason why Intel and Novell are Patrons of KDE is, assumably, not that they want to influence the KDE community, but that they think that having a functioning community is important for those companies as well, and that being a Patron of KDE is a good way to help the community being effective and develop good and Free software.

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

I agree with you're novel statement, I can see KDE4 being highly popular with corporate users (The Semantic Desktop)

I'm not too sure what intel thinks its getting from this, perhaps its genine charity. Either way good on both of you :)

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

Intel Classmate PC will use KDE as default linux environment,
(look the screenshot from aKademy Education Day)
so the better is KDE the better will look their project....

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

I'm so pleased that once and for all it knocks on the head the idea that Novell are anti-KDE. Hopefully it will end the Kremlinology of each new release of openSUSE (and antecedents) regarding the batting order of desktops for installation.

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

> Hopefully it will end the Kremlinology of each new release of openSUSE (and antecedents) regarding the batting order of desktops for installation.

I'm not really sure what this sentence does want to say :-). Don't expect changes to the desktop selection dialog during installation of the "fat edition" (6 CDs/DVD/boxed version/FTP). But openSUSE 10.3 will introduce additional new one CD installation media which contain only one single desktop, making you choose your desktop before download, so it will be comparable to Kubuntu and Fedora's KDE spin.

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