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List:       userlinux-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss] ISV's and Licensing
From:       Philippe Fremy <phil () freehackers ! org>
Date:       2003-12-12 10:05:53
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> >Supporting KDE _and_ Gnome should not be any problem! Just in the city I
> >live (Madrid) there are some very small Linux support companies and they
> >don't have any problem supporting both, why it must be a problem for a
> >UserLinux oriented company?
>
> Well, if I sat down to learn to develop for two complete GUIs I assure
> you it would be a problem.

Well, there are two things in UserLinux: 

- supporting enterprises deploying desktops with KDE or Gnome. I am sure 
there is no problem with this, even if you prefer one of them. Gnome and 
KDE are cooperating more and more through freedesktop and with the advances 
of unified mime databases, unified menu systems and others, it is really no 
problem. I assume Gnome documents its administration interface, just like 
KDE does (http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/)

- developing software with one of the toolkit or providing technical support 
to a company doing that. Indeed, very few companies can handle the two, but 
why would they have to ? When you do business, you have to specialise in 
one area, else, you are IBM. 

There are some companies specliased in web development, other in Qt 
development, other in Gtk development, other in database development, 
others in Zope development, other in linux administration. 

It would indeed be a mistake to go to one of these companies for something 
they are not specialised in. But it is wrong to assume that a company doing 
linux support or services should have skills in all of these area. You just 
pick-up the one that is suited to your needs. It seems that this was the 
idea of UserLinux, providing a common base to allow specific service 
offers.

So I don't buy your argument that a developer has to know both Gtk and Qt if 
both of them are included as reference Gui toolkit in UserLinux.


	regards,

	Philippe Fremy
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