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Re: A sad state of affairs
by vm on Tuesday 10/Jul/2007, @14:10

>> If I was going to be worried about the state of one of the desktops, it wouldn't be KDE

Well, we all know how prevalent windows is on the desktop compared to linux and it has nothing to do with technical superiority, stability, number of devs etc. Gnome is in a similar situation w.r.t. KDE as 'doze has w.r.t. linux. All the 'major' companies such as RH, novell and Sun are backing gnome. Of course, since that hasn't led to any real adoption, it doesn't seem to matter. Besides, none of these cos really make any great desktop s/w sales to corporations that we know of.

This should not be misinterpreted as all software cos backing gnome - in fact most of them only back windows. It is more of a political thing; how much it will matter in the future remains to be seen.

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