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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Steven Pasternak <stevenp500 () bellsouth ! net>
Date:       2005-02-09 17:36:11
Message-ID: 200502091236.11904.stevenp500 () bellsouth ! net
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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:32 pm, Paul Temple wrote:
> If anyone is interested in my opinion... ;)
>
> If kde was available on windows, it _might_ turn some linux
> people to windows, as there are some applications, but
> especially drivers that don't have linux counterparts. It's
> still a sad thing in linux: in order to buy a notebook I need to
> check so many things to make sure linux supports all of
> firewire, bluetooth, graphics (not vesa), etc... "It ain't no
> fun".
>
> But I think that would be just for the short term and just a very
> small number would really switch. I, and I think most of the
> users, use linux not only because of kde, though it's of course
> the coolest desktop... And some people might even get attracted
> to linux as they see how many great applications are available,
> at least if the nice infrastructure (kio, etc.), which is the
> most important thing in kde in my opinion, will be available
> there, too.
>
> And if we get to the point, where windows and linux provide the
> same range of applications, people (IT decision makers, too) are
> really free to decide which os they want to use. And I think in
> the long term windows will loose many users then. That might be
> different if the market share of linux wasn't so small, but even
> then...
>
> Linux has to solve the driver problem, that's a _real_ problem
> which can't be handled by any application (not counting windows
> emulators ;). And then (in the long term) linux won't loose more
> people to windows than it will gain from.
>
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About the laptop thing, intel has made drivers for their graphics carts and 
centrino technology.
 
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