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On Thursday 05 April 2001 02:20, you wrote:
Actually, I had an email exchange a few months ago with their CEO who responded himself to a request for support. He told me that they had made RH and Mandrake RPM's but that they couldn't possibly support all distributions because of all the differences. When I informed him of how much SuSE puts toward KDE development ..his only response was that an individual would make on soon and put it in contrib which is where "non" employee packages reside. They want to make nice KDE software if your system is running RH or a knock off. *shrug*
The argument was that Red Hat was the market leader, therefore the best to support. However, they may have a hard time explaining why they don't support the new marketplace leader, SuSE. There may be resistance at first, but eventually they will have to support SuSE , if it remains the number one distribution in the market. If SuSE can become and remain the leader without support from man of the developers, think about how well they will do with the full support of all the developers. In the future it may be worthwhile to remind them SuSE is the number one distribution in USA.
joe Ben and Joe: It is hard to figure. He wants to make good software, but does not support SuSE with rpm's. I and the community, had to wait a month for "his copy of SuSE 7.1 to arrive and his packaging farm to be put together", and what do we get for all the time spent waithing. SuSE rpm's that put things in RH location, and in the case of Kapital at least for me does not import QIF files made by Moneydance (even though I had given him sample files to test with) and a second bug that crashes when editing the splits created. There was mention made about the bad rpm's that placed in RH location but no desire on theKompany's part to fix. Just a lot of muttering about the problems created by the various distributions. Aethera is a good program, it worked after I did a relocate to /opt/kde2 when installing which is more than Magllan did for me. But it lacks features just like Kapital. I just do not understand Shanwn's attitude when it comes to SuSE which does more for KDE and Supports KDE more than anyother distribution. This might kill off a very
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