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Subject:    RE: [kde-promo] Negative feedback about KDE non-openmindedness in
From:       Philippe FREMY <P.FREMY () OBERTHURCS ! com>
Date:       2002-02-20 12:49:06
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> I didn't read the original paper, but I somehow have the 
> feeling, that the main problem is the bad integration of StarOffice into
KDE.   
> 

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 begründet, es wurde nur von der ersten E-Mail an aggressiv
abgelehnt. Es hieß später seitens einiger Koordinatoren von KDE, bei
KDE verfolge jeder sein Lieblingsspielzeug und keiner wolle etwas
anderes machen. Es kam seitens KDE zu sehr unschönen Vorfällen. 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
mögen auch deren freakige, querdenkerische, anspruchsvolle Art. Ich
glaube, die mögen 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.  

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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