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Corporate KDE

Posted by michael on from the tired-of-outlook-viruses dept.

roomisigloomis writes "This article at CNET shows some headway being made in KDE development with aims at the corporate desktop. It's cool that it's funded by the German government."

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  1. Open source + government interest = ? by vano2001 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone else see the possibility that major OSS and specially the Linux OS will end up being managed (or controlled big time) by governments? The level of funding a government can have surpasses that of copmanies or donations. Will this have any impact on the direction development will take? Can this have any negative impact on the long run? (of course it is all advantage for the forseeable future)

  2. Could run afoul of US Laws by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People need to be careful here since US trade laws
    could be used by MS against Linux with KDE since the product could be claimed to be Govt. subsidized.

    There were some reports earlier that MS did exactly
    this to put a stop to the NSA adding strong
    security features to Linux.