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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice for KDE 3
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-02-26 9:59:12
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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?...

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Vadim Plessky
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