[Late answer, but I just lacked the time to read all mails.] On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:52:13PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:45, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > As per the recommendations from Bruce Perens' User Linux paper > > http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html, this thread is to discuss the > ... > * Desktop Suite - GNOME (as more-Windows-like as KDE is, GNOME > definitely has greater momentum, with SUN and HP, and now Novell's > acquisition of Ximian and SUSE and corresponding statements - really, > there's no point fighting the tide on this one).
I'm not sure I'd subscribe to this point of view, nor am I sure I even like it. We, as in Debian, do NOT go for a desktop suite just because it has momentum in the enterprise world. We never did. And as long as you call it enterprise DEBIAN there's still a large part of the debian spirit in this. Besides I won't even buy the situation as you paint it. I'm not sure what's the situation in your country but Germany certainly has been KDE territory ever since and I cannot see all those companies switching desktop suites. I for one have never been actively asked for Gnome, just for KDE so far. One final word, I strongly believe that the best thing free software has to offer is its freedom and that it is driven by the community. KDE still is mostly driven by a community not by companies, so why does this sponsoring momentum change anything? Note that I do not want to get into a technical discussion as I've used both over the years. Why can't we just let the customers decide? Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
