John Pugh wrote:
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> Where ever you are acquiring your KDE fud from is disappointing and
> borders on sounding like a Microsoft proponent when it comes to
> generating FUD. Fact of the matter is that Novell employs a large number
> of KDE contributors and supports KDE quite well. Case in point is the
> fact that Novell and Trolltech hosted the recent KDE 4 core meeting (
> http://dot.kde.org/1151271635/ ) and Novell has 3 of the seven
> elected members of the Technical Working Group (
> http://dot.kde.org/1139614608/ ). Where is Debian, Ubuntu or other
> "non-commercially managed" distributors?
Nevertheless, the SLE default is very much GNOME.
> For a company that is abandoning KDE, Novell sure does invest a lot of
> resources in it.
I'll be curious to see to what extent that remains true.
> One last comment that I have to make in this thread. There continues to
> be political battles around Qt and it's QPL licensing scheme. GNOME is
> not in those battles since everything about GNOME is GPL. Novell is a
> very conservative company. These political battles posed a big problem
> for Red Hat early on (and currently too in other areas) and any large,
> publicly owned entity will try to distance itself from anything that is
> remotely Enron-esque.
>
> Sorry for bringing politics into it. The facts are out.
Thanks, but QT is, in fact, GPL'd[1].
[1] http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/licensing/opensource
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