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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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