Why KDE4 is called KDE?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 05:04:09 Kishore wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009 12:10:20 am Duncan wrote:
> > Istvan Gabor posted on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:04:53 +0100 as excerpted:
> > > I would like to ask KDE4 developers, on what bases do they call KDE4
> > > KDE.
> >
> > As a matter of fact... the name did officially change, recently.  While
> > before, KDE stood for K Desktop Environment, now, KDE (the initials
> > apparently standing for nothing in particular) is the platform, and the
> > KDE Software Collection (that is KDE SC or KDE-SC, I'm not sure what the
> > official abbreviated form is) is the new term for what was formerly
> > referred to as KDE.
> 
> KDE Software Compilation (not collection)
> 
And KDE is the community - that is everyone who contributes in any way, be it 
as developer, documenter, translator, packager, user who contributes to bug 
reports and investigations, and anyone else contributing in any way 
whatsoever.

Anne
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