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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KDE publicity issue
From:       Kai-Uwe Sattler <kus () iti ! CS ! Uni-Magdeburg ! De>
Date:       1999-05-20 10:14:58
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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
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Kai-Uwe Sattler
E-Mail: kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de, k.sattler@computer.org
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