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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: theKompany widgets in KOffice
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-09-20 18:35:09
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:44:54AM -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2001 11:56 am, Richard Moore wrote:
> > Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 May 2001 18:04, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > > > I understand that PR is important for you. However TheKompany already
> > > > gets more PR on our news site than any other contributing company like
> > > > Caldera, SuSE or Mandrake. All of which pay developers to work on KDE.
> > >
> > > But these companies also have other sources of income...
> >
> > It is also 100% their fault that they get less publicity - if
> > they don't submit stories we can't publish them.
> 
> The one thing i cannot understand is we complain when we dont get industry 
> support and we complain when any company does anything with KDE....

This is an old subject I don't want to open up again, so I just want 
to say that the balance between companies and volenteer developers 
receiving PR is a personal thing. People want PR, companies wans PR.

If however the companies get PR, they will most probably (again a balance 
thing) use their own PR efforts to point to KDE as well. 

I personally don't mind big company XYZ having posters all over town 
showing they made a KOffice or KDE application. As long as they either
have the logo or the website URL of KDE to go with it.

In the end we all have to 'fight' for the normal people, the people 
who know all those companies but don't know KDE (yet).

Again, I am not commenting on this specific case, just posting some
food for thought, saying that we are still living in a corporate world.

Continue hacking now...
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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