From kde-core-devel  Sun Aug 28 20:48:42 2005
From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" <Friedrich.W.H () kossebau ! de>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:48:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Redefining kdelibs and kdebase
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Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 21:57, schrieb Simon Hausmann:
> This is not about restricting our apps, it's about opening up our platform
> to embrace more applications.

To repeat myself from previous discussions here:=20
Be careful, do not overdue in this direction. Some say this is part of the=
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famous approach OS/2 took, embracing W*ndows, thus having all people to=20
develop for W*ndows as this way their programs would run on both platforms.=
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Newer W*ndows features naturally appeared first, you guess, in W*ndows, so=
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OS/2 was quickly behind. The end of the story is known.

You do want to get people to code for KDE, don't you? So think more about h=
ow=20
KDE apps can run on more platforms, not so much the other way round. Konqui=
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rules more than F*refox, doesn't it?

My dirty 2 cent on this topic
=46riedrich

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