From kde-usability  Sat Mar 11 21:29:58 2006
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:29:58 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Restricting access to "distracting" features and preferences
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On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:31, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Yesterday there was a small discussion on #kde, why business distributions
> such as Redhat's product or Novell Linux Desktop, which has become SuSE
> Linux Desktop have Gnome as default and not KDE. I am not sure whether
> there actually is a business-product sold, that has KDE as default.

there are several ranging from Xandros to Mandriva to Linspire to Red Flag=
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to...

more important to me than the defaults on distros (though that is also very=
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important) is what people actually end up using. and KDE continues to do=20
rather well there.

> is this actually no issue at all and there are other reasons?

yes, there are other reasons.

many people in the user community keep trying to look for rational reasons =
for=20
the decisions of Red Hat and Novell in this regard and float all kinds of=20
theories. in reality, it's pretty simple:

Red Hat invested early on in GNOME due to Qt1 licensing and this historical=
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investment is too large for them to turn back on at this point. they contin=
ue=20
to provide KDE, however, because the market demands it

Novell moved towards GNOME because they bought Ximian and then placed two o=
f=20
GNOME's early though leaders (Miguel, Nat) in upper management. you do the=
=20
math.

this is thoroughly off topic for this list however. if you wish to continue=
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the conversation, please take it off list via private email =3D)

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Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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