Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 November 2005 03:10 pm, Curtis Rey wrote:

> So, if my reaction seems exaggerated it is because many of us fear the
> inevitable is occurring.  This goes back to the previous power struggle and
> bad blood between the KDE and GNOME devel teams.

Hu? Who? What? where?  Best I can tell KDE developers worry about making the 
KDE better.  They could give a rip less about the GNOME, unless...

> I'm sure there are quite 
> a few reasons that Novell took the initial decision regarding the GUI of
> choice.  However, I can't escape my gut feeling that this is also a vailed
> vendetta that's being played out.

> Novell bought Ximian and KDE came with the SuSE acquisition.  In otherwords
> someone probably feels that this is round two (or three) for the ongoing
> KDE/GNOME conflict.  One a more personal note, I can't escape the
> impression that someone high up in the GNOME/Ximian team convinced those at
> Novell that the best use of the Ximian purchase would be to emulate RH and
> therein place GNOME resources and development priorities above that of KDE.

I think you need to look at something else.  Mono.  That is very important to 
Novell.  Novell is making cuts because they don't have the income.  What we 
really should be focusing on is how to help SuSE/Novell improve their 
revenues.  How can Linux be sold to large organizations?  BTW, NASA, NIH, 
NSA, and many other hightech government organizations both use, and 
contribute to Linux.  How can we convince major corporations to contribute to 
Linux without a direct, measurable ROI?  In the end it would cut a lot of 
operating costs, and free them of dependency on a single source provider.

Steven