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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] misconceptions and FAQs
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-03-17 22:01:28
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On Sunday March 17, 2002 01:39, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> one concept i've
> managed to come up with is a series of FAQ-like documents for various
> components of KDE that succinctly verify or refute commonly held
> opinions / assertions about KDE. the language would be brief and
> non-technical in nature. a very simple format something like this could
> be used:

> Common opinion ...
> Answer ...
> References: ...

Powerful idea.  Here's some of my suggestions for entries, as food for 
thought:

Common opinion: KDE starts slowly because it's bloated and inefficient.  
<insert C environment here> starts fast, after all.
Answer: bad linkers, objprelink, prelink
References:  Waldo Bastian's paper, Leon Bottou's page, new GNU 
binutils/GNU libc

Common opinion: KDE isn't free software in the GNU sense, but is merely 
open source
Answer: All KDE and Qt licenses are free software
References: gnu.org even listing QPL, GPL, LGPL, other KDE and Qt licenses 
as free software

Common opinion: KDE is done just by Europeans.
Answer: i18n.kde.org, worldwide.kde.org

Common opinion: A browser-only application using khtml (like Galeon) would 
use less memory than Konqueror.

Common opinion: KDE has no businesses supporting it, and will die as a 
result.

Common opinion: KDE doesn't have theme support to let people make it pretty 
to their own tastes

Common opinion: KDE has severe NIH syndrome, rejecting code sharing and 
stnadards with others
Answer: sharing happens all the time
References: kdebindings, C# bindings, xparts, XDG (freedesktop), gphoto, 

Common opinion: You have to use C++ to write KDE
Answer: see previous question

Common opinion: The KDE League is just the GNOME foundation with a 
different name, steering KDE.
Answer: no.
References: KDE eV

This is just a smattering of what I've seen repeated on #kde-users, or 
slashdot, or whatever.
-- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

 
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