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Re: Google and KDE
by Kevin Kofler on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @22:35

Please, no!

Please don't let them corrupt our Free Software by integrating their proprietary web applications, or even their proprietary desktop software (Google Desktop Search, Google Earth, Google Sky, ...) we already have viable Free alternatives (Strigi, Marble, KStars, ...) for in KDE!

(I'm saying "our" rather than "your" because I happen to be a KDE developer (I'm the one to thank if you ever use Kompare in KDE 4, I got it from non-building to shippable in KDE 4.0.0).)

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Re: Google and KDE
by jos poortvliet on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @00:01

you got a point, but so does he. Working with Google has advantages and disadvantages - we can use money, resources and goodwill, but we don't want to be tied into them, offer google as only option. Luckily, it doesn't have to be that way - see the Magnatune integration in Amarok - it's now pluginbased - in part thanks to Magnatune contributions! Some companies really *get* FOSS, are genuine and willing to properly contribute to and work with us. Google has been doing well, so I think we could/should work a bit more - but not commit to ONLY google.

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Re: Google and KDE
by Kevin Kofler on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @00:44

Indeed, Magnatune paying an Amarok developer and even letting him implement support for competing music stores is very nice of them. Cooperations like this (with no lock-in involved) are beneficial to KDE.

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Re: Google and KDE - Proprietary Taint
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @05:33

Google partners with Mozilla, offers money and code. They don't taint Mozilla with anything proprietary. They offer code and money to MySQL. They don't taint MySQL with anything proprietary.

I suggested integrating open API's and such into the desktop. I suggested having Google aid Strigi and Nepomuk.

Where exactly did I suggest we remove open code with proprietary code? And when did the GPL suddenly allow such a thing?

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Re: Kompare
by Erik on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @15:47

> I'm the one to thank if you ever use Kompare in KDE 4, I got it from non-building to shippable in KDE 4.0.0

Thank you for giving Kompare some attention. It semmd to be abandoned for so long! Like I was the only person left using it. And I use it a lot, mostly to review my own changes before committing to SVN (svn diff|kompare -&) and of course configuration file changes on Gentoo (set pager="kompare -" in /etc/etc-update.conf). Did you just port it or did you also fix some of the old bugs? 2 of the most annoying are that it does not understand directory structures (output of "diff -r", see [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139233]) and that pressing "Next file" jumps to a random file, not the next in the file list.

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Re: Kompare
by Kevin Kofler on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @17:13

I fixed some bugs (e.g. the character set issues), but I haven't looked at those yet.

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