Hmmm, the project some of us look to for improving KDE PR seems to be
making some less than impressive PR moves lately.

The huge Ximian/Mono hype (any PR is good PR) resulted in lots of
counterproductive negativity for GNOME (or is it?) although Sun is
surprisingly unmoved by it all.  And now, Sun gets GNOME some Indian
developers (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/24/1519258) and
the reaction is almost 100% negative.  WTH?

And did anyone see how the GNOME 2.0 beta release was handled?  Man,
aren't we happy we have Dre now. :) I do however fully expect to hear
*huge amounts* of GNOME noise after GNOME2 is out of the doors.

On the flip size, there has been quite an increase in trolls on
dot.kde.org.  It almost seems like a concerted effort.  Some guy
(joe99, who used to troll the dot as dude13 before) is going around
plastering a *huge* essay and various other trolls/obscenities about
"KDE Myths" on the dot and elsewhere.  At least 4 other individual
trollers using various nicks and IPs have been pinpointed.

Ironically, joe99's main accusation is that KDE has a propaganda
machine, while *we* bitch all day about having no PR. :-)

That's all for today's Gnossip column.

-N.
 
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