redhat's new desktop policy

[Kevin Krammer]

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On Tuesday, 17. September 2002 09:59, Andreas Pour wrote:

> Well, I noted Evolution and Nautilus in particular b/c they were
> sponsored by venture capital and hence did not rely on volunteers. 
> Also, with the $13 million spent on Nautilus, I think KDE could have
> been improved a lot :-).

Yes, you're right, dind't see it that way.
That's the advantage about being an American project. Lot of money from 
investors.
European investors are far more conservative.

> But that really misses the main point, the fact that fragmentation will
> kill the Linux desktop just like it killed Unix servers and like it has
> killed any other market that I can think of that competed against a
> unified standard (and in this case that unified standard is already a
> monopoly, making it even harder to unseat).

Can't talk on this as I don't knwo what got changed, but AFAIK other 
distributors also change stuff like the K menu (SuSE and Mandrake IIRC)

Cheers,
Kevin

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