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Who's next?
by Fred on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:07

Nokia supporting KDE
SUN supporting KDE

Who's next? Microsoft?

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Re: Who's next?
by Anon on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @08:17

Since Microsoft have little history of supporting Free Software compared to the two companies listed, I would guess "no".

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Re: Who's next?
by jos poortvliet on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @09:23

I'd say Apple, through their work on KHTML/WebKit ;-)

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Re: Who's next?
by Max on Thursday 31/Jan/2008, @11:38

How about google?

They could take a more active part and become a patron of KDE.
That would be great!!

I also wouldn't mind if google writes some applications for plasma. Specifically applications that could sync google calendar, google mail, google news, etc. with KDE applications. (I know KDE programmers could do it, but since google stands to benefit the most from it, maybe they should do it themselves. :-) It would free up time for already busy developers to concentrate on the rest of the KDE experience.)

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Re: Who's next?
by Eduardo on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @06:44

Yeah right. First they should try to make Gmail work in Konqueror as a fully-supported browser.

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Re: Who's next?
by Max on Friday 01/Feb/2008, @11:32

Well yea.. But the other things are important too.

Maybe Google will have an incentive now that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will mean more interoperability for Microsoft-Yahoo. I'm sure google will want to cement their stake on the desktop too.

I for one will welcome google with open arms. :)

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