On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
1. does the Novell takeover spell the end of KDE: we'll they recently acquired Ximian so i guess its possible
It's very early days and so impossible to be certain what the long-term policy will be on this - however, there have been statements even from the Ximian guys in Novell that KDE will continue on SUSE. "Novell will continue to support KDE on SuSE, distribute its packages and maintain this offering which is a prime choice of people. We will also integrate Ximian Desktop into their offering, because it is a more fine-tuned desktop than the default Gnome one, and leverages all the enterprise features we added to it." (Miguel de Icaza on slashdot yesterday)
4. lets hope that Suse exist in an independant / technically motivated way and that they are not made a SCO clone.
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