On 6/23/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/23/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 But we should all recognize a few undeniable facts: Although neither a Sun Microsystems employee, nor a designated community representative, nor having ever contributed a single line of code to the KDE Project, or to QT, Mr. Walker pontificates destkop inclusion decisions, Trolltech license interpretations, and in-depth technical details about KDE, and QT, apparently on behalf of Sun Microsystems, the Indiana Project, and the community at large. We should consider ourselves fortunate that someone with such outstanding insights as Mr. Walker is willing to share these insights with all of us, thereby providing invaluable guidance to the Indiana Project. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
