On 6/23/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/06/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a better idea. > > > > let's /not/ ship gnome, and ship KDE instead. It's a far superior & > > more integrated desktop environment, and one that windows users ( the > > largest platform out there ) are most likely to feel comfortable in > > I have a better idea. Don't state things that are an opinion as fact. > KDE is not *factually* superior. Everyone has their own preference.
no, but KIO and other such things mean that it is /factually/ much more integrated. And yes, everyone has their own preference which is why this shouldn't be a decision made by Sun Microsystems' executive fiat. This is advertised as a community distro, and Sun Microsystems employees coming down and saying "This is how it shall be done" is not the way to build a community, it's just SUNW flexing it's muscles > Secondly, what you propose makes absolutely no sense given that most > of the community's resources are invested in GNOME. Why would we ship > KDE when most of the time is spent on GNOME? That doesn't make any > sense. Sun pays some people to work on GNOME. this doesn't mean the community's resources are committed to it, it just means that sun pays some people to work on GNOME. Sun also loses money because of this, as the German government migrates to SuSE in part because of KDE. > KDE also has a *factually* less-friendly business license than GNOME > if you want to write proprietary commercial software. that's complete rubbish. Trolltech will sell you a proprietary license for it, and if that's not acceptable, KDE can run GTK apps perfectly fine. In recent versions, with a similar widget set -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
