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Re: [SLE] KDE is a community _and_ a DE.
  • From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:41:20 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200511120741.03447.hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:17 am, Andre Truter wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Steven T. Hatton <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
>
> > the reason I am - and I suspect Mantel is - so upset about the appearant
> > decision on the part of Novell to force SuSE to stop funding the KDE.
> > The
>
> Is this true? Is Novell trying to force SUSE to stop funding KDE
> development? Are there any articles or statements available?
> Where can I read about this?

"I'm just happy we picked one [desktop]. It makes no sense to support two
desktops that do the same thing when you're trying to cut costs." - Greg
Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell's director of marketing for Linux

I have a hard time reading much else into that statement.

Steven

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