From koffice Tue Feb 26 09:59:12 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:59:12 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: KOffice for KDE 3 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=101471784131293 On Friday 22 February 2002 20:39, David Faure wrote: | On Friday 22 February 2002 15:41, Vadim Plessky wrote: | > I believe many people would be happy to do KDE development on a daily | > basis, but they need some finnacial support, which is not easy to get | > doing Linux. And there are no many company willing to fund KDE dev. | > (even IBM is somewhat not very keen on this) :-(( | | You are wrong about IBM. | IBM sponsored KDE development quite a lot, giving hardware | (from laptops to servers). | Our new CVS server is a machine donated by IBM, for instance. oops. You got me wrong. Of course IBM is helping a lot, and promoting Linux to their customer is more than just giving some money to some projects. I said "even IBM" meaning that others do less. From my side: I hope that $1000 from IBM / KDE Theme contest (bronze) was finally credited to KDE account, and that money found its way to KDE development :-) But: do we have some KOffice developers paid by IBM (HP, Dell), either directly or indirectly? I know that Sun is backing GNOME, aware about KDE League existance. Question is wether some of IT companies are going to support KOffice *directly* (paid jobs). Or am I dreaming?... -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/