Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Andreas Girardet" <agirardet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Team

As a KDE enthusiast I am confident that KDE will stay around for a long
time and stay dominant on the home user front.

I do not really have any official capacity here, but I still feel quite
part of this amazing journey called openSUSE. I hope I can say these
words and won't get into too much trouble .... the focus on Gnome is
needed to be able to grow our business user base and focus our internal
development effort to what is achievable. I find this all very logical
and commendable.

I want to personally give the certainty to our majority of kde users,
that KDE will still be maintained via openSUSE.org and my own effort, if
this is required. I am sure that we will not lack kde packagers in the
future.

I am sure I speak on behalf of many at Novell/SUSE that see change a
must to be able to tackle the market leader in the coming years. I am in
no doubt that concentrating the development effort is a goal we will
achieve internally as we are preparing ourselves to exchange million
dollar punches on the market place. We are de facto a lean, mean
fighting machine to grow Linux to the next level. Concentrating
development effort is in this scenario inevitable. I do hope that the
confusion around the false rumors on KDE's and openSUSE,can be seen as
being/getting ready for 2006, the year in which Linux has the break
through. Without focus only luck determines outcome. With focus we are
just about certain to prevail ;)


So refute further runours here our official view:


http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2005110500426NWSSNV


Cheers

Andreas



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