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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Mindshare (or the lack thereof)
From:       Steve Hutton <shutton () bellsouth ! net>
Date:       1999-03-07 5:57:15
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On Thu, 04 Mar 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
<snip>
>The result of this is a flood of mainstream articles about GNOME and
>nearly zero non-German articles about KDE.  Those few articles that mention
>KDE at all do so only to show that it is an "old" DE that GNOME is
>replacing.  Never is it describes as "innovative" or "exciting".  Many
>have interviews with GNOME developers.  None have interview with their
>KDE counterparts.
>
>Here are a few reasons why:
<snip reasons>

You left out the biggest and most obvious reason:  GNOME is
supported and advocated by Red Hat.  Almost every time a journalist
does a story on Linux, they go to Red Hat for quotes.  Red Hat hypes
GNOME, and doen't even mention KDE.

Think about it - how do so many Microsoft products get "mindshare?"
It comes from hype - case in point, NT 5.0.  It was on the cover of
Byte magazine in April _1997_.  Red Hat and GNOME are beating
Caldera/SuSE and KDE in a similar way - by "marketing."  Sad, isn't
it?

Steve

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