On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:29, Fred A. Miller wrote: <snip>

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Now that they really have backed off supporting KDE (mostly IMHO because of the QT license) and opted for GNOME (mainly because of the GTK license - aka GPL or LGPL, whatever) and then wonder why no one except a few are that enthusiastic about it - could it be as the author said, no real maintainers for the GTK project? And now that they have forced SuSE and their devs to back off the QT/KDE development they've essentially painted themselves (and to an extent us) in a corner. Like the author said - pity! (or just braindead - if the shoe fits....).

Well, SUSE still has quite a few working on the KDE team, and I don't see that as changing.

I read the article too before you posted it and was waiting for an appropriate time to respond, thinking either "the sky is falling" or things are overblown. My question is - and I wonder if any suse developers read the ot list - this: Is novell no longer supporting KDE financially? If not, then are they taking charge of Gnome? It would seem that a company like Novell would be far better off if they took a stand one way or another. Either they start managing the uglier-than-cow-manure Gnome project directly or they continue to support the far-superior KDE. (Not that I'm biased or anything...) I certianly hope that in-fighting does not mean we'll all be relegated to using an inferior system such as Wintendo someday...

Fred

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