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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Bruno Laturner on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:17

You know, out of the 3 big distro-backing companies, Canonical, Novell and Red Hat, Red Hat is the only one who isn't a KDE supporting member.

Maybe KDE e.V should invite them to be a Patron of KDE.

I can't think about anything more friendly and supporting than that.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Anon on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:22

That's a nice idea, but Red Hat have made their thoughts about KDE abundantly clear over the years. Such a request would just be embarrassing for both parties, I fear.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Rex Dieter on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @12:17

Working on it... :)

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Erunno on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @14:02

Technically, Cannonical isn't either since Mark Shuttleworth became a patron as a private person.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Hi on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @19:50

Probably because the individual contribution is lower.. I kid, I kid, please no flame. :)

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Hi on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @19:51

Nokia isn't on that list either, neither is Google, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Joergen Ramskov on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @02:25

But Trolltech is and if I recall correctly, Nokia said they would become patrons too.

In regards to Google - they do support KDE in various ways.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by Rahul Sundaram on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @05:28

Note that Red Hat does commercially support KDE in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and to develop, package, QA and support does require a considerably large staff for a huge piece of software stack like KDE.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by jhgjbk on Sunday 16/Mar/2008, @09:36

Huge staff? RH has one guy that compiles it and that's about it.

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Re: enjoyed the interview
by jeff on Saturday 29/Mar/2008, @16:55

No. Red Hat has two full time developers working on KDE and dozens of other people doing QA, support etc. Talk about what you know.

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