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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE - The joke's gone on for far too long.
From:       Sean Pecor <sean () digitalspinner ! com>
Date:       2001-02-12 14:58:25
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On Monday 12 February 2001 02:46, Paul Fredlein wrote:
> KDE has potential, so let's get something positive going on in the Linux
> world and stop being a poor man's Micro$oft Windoze.

Okay, the facts: Windows is the most popular desktop operating system. More 
people prefer Windows than it's alternatives. It took hold of the market 
early on because Windows made DOS and there were 10 DOS programmers for every 
1 Unix or Mac programmer. 

The conclusion: In order for a competing desktop operating system to be 
viable, it must have the applications to support it. To have viable 
applications, it must have programmers to support their development. To have 
viable programmers, a solid bridge must exist so that talented Windows 
developers can migrate and risk little. To deny this is to doom the new 
initiative to be nothing more than a novelty for a niche audience. KDE and 
Linux go one step further in that they are a cancer for Windows with no 
single source or known cure. There is no cash resource to cut, no single 
competitor to purchase, and no governing body to corrupt. 

<myopinion>
While KDE takes much of what is good from several operating systems, KDE and 
QT together are the bridge from Windows to Linux. Three out of four Windows 
developers will choose KDE during a silent migration that will see Gnome fade 
in significance. If you disagree, look to Corel and their efforts at 
customizing Wordperfect Office 2000 for KDE. Or Borland, for their deployment 
of Kylix. For those who haven't taken a serious look at Kylix yet, it's 
darwinian ladder includes Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal and Borland 
Delphi. It's a serious RAD tool, and millions of developers around the world 
use Delphi every day. I used Delphi extensively in the early nineties and it 
kicked ass.
</myopinion>

Sean.

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