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Formation of the KDE League

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the solomon-grundy-want-pants dept.

Several folks noted that the KDE team has announced a collaboration with industry, similiar to the GNOME foundation ... it's called the KDE League. If only they can get Green Lantern and Aquagirl to join existing members like TrollTech, Corel, HP, IBM, MandrakeSoft, and SuSE. (Noticably missing from the official press release are names like Red Hat and VA Linux.)

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  1. Competition may or may not be a good thing by JoeBuck · · Score: 5

    There are two possible ways to compete:

    • Each side tries to excel. Third parties benefit as the available software gets better and better.
    • Each side tries to whack the other side, spread FUD, make the other side look bad. Systems become incompatible with each other and people get locked into one side or the other. Third parties lose.

    This one could go either way. Remember BSD vs System V, then System V vs OSF, and Open Look vs Motif? All these battles just about killed the Unix market in favor of Windows; fortunately Linux and BSD came along to put new life into Unix.

    If the Gnome and KDE folks are interested in way #1, then they will put substantial energy in making sure that KDE apps work well on a Gnome desktop and vice versa, and they will avoid the nasty attacks on the other side we so commonly see Example: when the Gnome Foundation was created it was bitterly attacked by many KDE partisans as something terribly immoral, yet now we see the KDE League, a roughly identical operation. Now, there's nothing wrong with either one, so it was the attacks that were bogus.

  2. Re:What is going on? by pointwood · · Score: 5

    Sure, more choice is generally a good thing, but the ongoing farce of GNOME vs. KDE (which is what they seem to be making it into) is a joke that makes Linux look rediculous. There is plenty of room out there for both desktops, yet they each spend as much time playing games of oneupmanship as they do promoting their own product.

    What farce are you talking about?
    If there is a farce, then it has only been here on /. - the core KDE Team (and the core GNOME Team) has mostly just quietly been hacking away, making the best desktop environment!

    This is not about making GNOME look silly - I bet it is more about promoting KDE to ex. Windows users and others. The more publishty Linux gets, the more KDE (and GNOME) will get - this will give the press a single place to go for information about KDE.

    Greetings Joergen

  3. The League is NOT the same as the Foundation!!!!!! by cstrommen · · Score: 5

    God'damn... Can't you read what is said. The KDE League is NOT like the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME Foundation is a steering comittee that decides in which direction GNOME is going. The KDE League has NOTHING to do with KDE Development, that is clearly said in the press-release. The KDE League is for PR ONLY!!! Please do not fall into assumptions that this is the same as the GNOME Foundation... Could you please change your article?

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