Red Hat Introduces Desktop Linux Competitor

Matias Feliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Sun May 16 21:21:16 UTC 2004


Le dim 16/05/2004 à 22:51, Alan Cox a écrit :
> On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:14:57AM -0500, jim tate wrote:
> > Why is it, that Redhat so dislikes KDE? the number one
> > choice of linux users.
> 
> I'm not sure whether KDE is the number one choice of users (or in fact
> whether most users actually care/know). I am sure Red Hat doesn't "dislike"
> KDE.
> 
> For business you have to care about stuff like supportability, what business
> wants and business requirements - like accessibility for disabled users.
> 

GPL (Qt) is less "business" friendly than LGPL (gtk+/gnome).

> > I read this article, and I assumed that they will still offer KDE
> > as a optional install in Fedora2.
> 
> Fedora 2 has KDE, and I really don't see it going away 8). In fact FC2 we
> added a desktop (xfce)
> 
> Alan
> 
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