Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thursday 10 November 2005 1:40 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
But Jerry, you know that if they background KDE enough that they'll stop having KDE dev guys on staff. They'll stop sponsoring KDE events and other such things. Some PHB will say " Why should we support this.. our default is Gnome and we pay all these Ximian people. " " So explain to me what the cost benefit is in supporting this as much as we have in the past. " It won't be a tech decision.. it will be a marketing and sales goon decision. Pure and simple. And that's fine if they want to go that route. I'll just use Kubuntu on my desktops and SUSE w/ out X on my servers as normal. :) You are speculating that Novell will kill KDE. I don't think so. Certainly, it it the enterprise that is funding the distros.
Ben's take on it is pretty much a real life Corporate scenario that has been played out across many enterprises for many years, the business schools don't turn out original thinkers, the guys who jump ship are the ones that posses that ability. Alan Sugar has the right idea of keeping those guys clear of business, reckoned their reviews and recommendations are recipes for ruin.
Oh well.. things change. I remember the HUGE uproar when SUSE killed yast1... and in my opinion that was a bigger mistake and took them a lot longer to get Yast2 up to speed. Things happen. Oh well. :) IMHO, YaST2 is a much better solution than YaST1 was although I really liked it. There are a lot of people who liked Motif and CDE.
Dear, oh dear!, you like bringing back painful memories. When there was uproar at the licensing of QT and RedHat decided to switch to CDE, I thought it was a joke, I had to see for myself the ghastly ghoul that still haunts Solaris but loved by some. I never thought to ask one of our customers why he used Solaris without a GUI installed - CDE too gruesome to face on a Monday morning perhaps. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks