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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] UserLinux desktop users will likely be mostly migrants
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2003-12-12 5:08:28
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On Thursday 11 December 2003 09:05, Brock Frazier wrote:
> I understand why the KDE folks are upset.

I don't think you do; or at least you don't understand why this "KDE person" 
is concerned.

> When something you believe in 
> and have hundreds of hours invested in is excluded, it is not in your
> best interest plus it is frustrating. Excluding either DE will alienate

while this is one part of my personal feeling on it (I won't lie), this is _by 
far_  the least of three reasons for me. here are the other two:

1. KDE has features and capabilities GNOME does not posses now, nor will 
possess any time soon. That gap is about to widen in Q1 2004, and not just 
because of the 3.2 release. Based on what today's businesses actually need 
across the entirety of an enterprise, what they are willing to pay for and 
endure and what both desktops offer, not offering KDE will result in failure. 
I'd also be nervous about going forth without the option of drawing on GNOME 
where appropriate.

2. By eliminating KDE from the picture, we eliminate the participation of many 
in the Open Source community and we also dismiss those companies who wish to 
choose KDE for whatever reason from being clients. This restriction of both 
the ISV community and the client base makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

For me this is less about my emotions being wrapped up in KDE and more about 
being in an a position of having an intimate understanding of the current DE 
technologies and first hand, real world knowledge of and experience with 
enterprise business desktop usage. There are of course others who have 
similar vantage points from which to draw conclusions from, too. If you heard 
my take on Sun's success or failure in the Linux desktop market, you'd begin 
to see that I don't have a "KDE uber alles" viewpoint, but rather look at 
things from a strategic viewpoint that is much more broad than that.

Put most simply, I'm concerned for the future plausability of User Linux given 
its current path because Bruce is, quite simply, wrong.  While that's his 
right and while I personally won't  walk down a path I fully expect to lead 
to failure, I also don't wish to throw the baby (User Linux) out with the 
bathwater (the current "whitepaper").

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Aaron J. Seigo
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