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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Mindshare (or the lack thereof)
From:       Robert Williams <rwilliams () jrc-utah ! com>
Date:       1999-03-07 17:59:16
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Check out the latest kde-press.html on our web server.  I just
added two good articles from InfoWorld and ZDNet - UK.



Steve Hutton wrote:
> 
> 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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