From koffice  Thu May 20 10:14:58 1999
From: Kai-Uwe Sattler <kus () iti ! CS ! Uni-Magdeburg ! De>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:14:58 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: KDE publicity issue
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=92722861010112

Slav Inger wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> BBC recently conducted an interview with Gnome "coordinator" Miguel de
> Icaza, and he had some things to say about KDE, although not very
> favorable.  The article mentions that Gnome has a fully fledged office
> suite, which of course should make it appealing to general audience.  I
> wonder why they forgot to mention that KDE also has a functional office
> suite, and a host of other applications.  One point I'm interested in:
> I was under impression that Qt is also available for Win32 and other
> non-UNIX platforms (?), but the article makes it look like Qt is a
> UNIX-only product.
> 
> The link to the article originally appeared on SlashDot, along with an
> interesting remark.
> Aritcle URL:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321433.stm
Nice guy: 
"I don't think KDE has a future at this point, it's not completely free
 yet and it's bound to a single programming language in Unix."

Kai
-- 
Kai-Uwe Sattler
E-Mail: kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de, k.sattler@computer.org
Homepage: http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/