From kde-promo  Wed Feb 20 12:49:06 2002
From: Philippe FREMY <P.FREMY () OBERTHURCS ! com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:49:06 +0000
To: kde-promo
Subject: RE: [kde-promo] Negative feedback about KDE non-openmindedness in
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> I didn't read the original paper, but I somehow have the=20
> feeling, that the main problem is the bad integration of StarOffice =
into
KDE.  =20
>=20

No, the guy explicitely say that he couldn't work with KDE and is =
turning to
Gnome (as far as my german can tell).


KDE wollte auf keinen Fall zusammenarbeiten, es wurde auch
nicht begr=FCndet, es wurde nur von der ersten E-Mail an aggressiv
abgelehnt. Es hie=DF sp=E4ter seitens einiger Koordinatoren von KDE, =
bei
KDE verfolge jeder sein Lieblingsspielzeug und keiner wolle etwas
anderes machen. Es kam seitens KDE zu sehr unsch=F6nen Vorf=E4llen. Wir
fragten hier in Kalifornien herum und erfuhren: wir stehen mit unseren
Erfahrungen nicht alleine da, andere Firmen kannten KDE schon auf diese
Weise. Inzwischen engagieren wir uns - auch in erheblichem Umfange
finanziell - bei Gnome, wohl wissend, dass die noch auf dem Wege sind.
Allerdings sind wir mit der Zusammenarbeit mit Gnome zufrieden - wir
m=F6gen auch deren freakige, querdenkerische, anspruchsvolle Art. Ich
glaube, die m=F6gen uns auch.

The babelfish translation with slight editing:

KDE wanted to co-operate in no case, it was not justified, it was
aggressively rejected from the first E-Mail . It was called later on =
the
part of some co-ordinators of KDE, with KDE pursues everyone its =
favourite
toy and none wants something else to make.  It came on the part of KDE =
too
much unpleasant incidents.  We asked here in California and =
experienced:  we
are not with our experiences alone there, other companies knew KDE =
already
in this way.  In the meantime we engage ourselves - also to substantial
extent financially - with gnomes, probably knowing that still on the =
way
are.  However we are content with co-operation with gnomes - we like =
also
their freakige, querdenkerische, fastidious art. I believe us, those =
like
also. =20

It looks like a troll, but it also looks serious...

As a bad news never happens alone, the european commission is planning =
to
explicitely accept software patents. There is no english press release =
yet
on eurolinux, but the french one
(http://petition.eurolinux.org/pr/fr/pr17.html) explains that european
governments have received a microsoft word document from the european
commission that grants software patents. The document has been written =
by
the "director of public policy" of the BSA.

	really a bad day.

	Philippe

 
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