On 11/6/05, Howard Coles Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, think about it. If Novell's Desktop is GNOME, and their Server is > GNOME, why would they want to have a different standard on SUSE and OpenSUSE > especially when that's where they get their code base?
Because SUSE Linux and OpenSUSE are influenced by the community and are not corporate products. > > We were all kicking around the office about just how long it would take Novell > to kill SUSE like it did UnixWare, WordPerfect, now NetWare. I was thinking > it would take them a while. Considering that every poll of any validity > shows KDE has 2 users and developers per Gnome's 1 (very conservative) to > more like 3:1 it would make sense to kill something you'd go to the 1. > I think with SUSE it is a different case, becuase they do not have ultimate control over SUSE. The Open Source factor will prevent Novell from killing it. Then, if I look at what Novell has done since they bought SUSE then it seems to go the opposite way. They have opened up SUSE much more than what it used to be, so they seem to be releasing on the control they have over it. SLES and NLD are different. They can control it to suit their own purposes and they can fully stop KDE support on those two if they want to. I am not punting Novell here, nor am I an expert on Novell's business practises, but my common sense tells me that what is stated in that article does not indicate the end of KDE in SUSE Linux, SLES, NLD or OpenSUSE. Where in that article or any for that matter did Novell or SUSE state that they are killing off KDE? I don't see any reason to grow a beard, wear a robe and dust off the old 'The end is Near' poster. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
