On 1/21/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 21-Jan-07, at 6:18 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:

>
> Let's not forget its "GPL" license either which means that I can't
> write CDDL software (logical since this is *OpenSolaris*) that uses
> it (unless I dual license which I refuse to do). Gtk's LGPL license
> is obviously better for business.
>

Rubbish.

MySQL is GPL as well, yet it's still distributed with Solaris.
Perhaps you propose we should remove that as well? And GCC too, since
that's GPL. actually, the whole of /usr/sfw should go... too much GPL...

what a joke of an argument.

I believe that once you've chosen a DE, the main parameter in the
equation is cost. Sun has invested a lot of money in Gnome, so there
would have to be a great reason to switch to KDE and supporting 2 DE's
is just not cost effective, specially if there is not enough customer
interest. However, this has nothing to do with an eventual KDE
opensolaris project.
Not every opensolaris project will ship with Solaris, sun's
distribution, and if anyone things otherwise, then he is part of the
community for at least one of the wrong reasons.
There is nothing wrong about having a community mantained kde port for
opensolaris

nacho
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