Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

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. 

> 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. 

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