From kde-devel  Wed Nov 22 22:38:24 2000
From: Stefan Westerfeld <stefan () space ! twc ! de>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:38:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Why we have created the KDE League
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   Hi!

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:33:52PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2000 18.05 schrieb Michael Brade:
> >
> > Hey, this was really nice to read!! Thanks a lot for that
> > enlightening explanation of the KDE League. May KDE now konquer the
> > remaining 95% of the world ;-)
> >
> > Ciao,
> >   Michael
> 
> Yeah it's good to hear that. But my question is: Is it nescessary to 
> "coquer" the rest of the 95%? I mean, we don't have any profit if we 
> have 100%. I make this for alsolutly FUN. It doesn't interrest me how 
> mnay other people use this. The main part is, that we have fun and 
> aenjoiable time in our group - the developpers of KDE!!
> Of course it _is_ nice to hear that many other people use our stuff, 
> but that won't (hopefully) get us away from our KDE-Way...

In some sense, reaching a large amount of people is essential. It's not so
much an "it is sooo cool that soo many people use it" argument, than a
pragmatic thing: if KDE is used by many people, those invest time, money
and energy in getting their things done with KDE, directly or indirectly.
And somehow this reflects back on KDE, you can be sure. It may be that
bugs are found, usability issues are fixed, installation on a linux
distributions is very easy (because many people want it), companies
contribute software, hardware works well under linux/kde, documentation
gets available (like books), more developers join the project, ...

   Cu... Stefan
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