I was referring both to Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. One of them (MdI) is VP of Product Technology for Novell. The other is VP of Product Development. Your guess is as good as mine (probably, better) as to what they actually do. Incidentally, the Ximian group also developed Evolution.
If one were sticking to projects that adhere to GPL3, you might have trouble finding an OS on which to run Gnome, or KDE. The last I saw, Linus was not too enthusiastic about GPL3.
Well, for one thing, Novell owns a company (now a division) called Ximian. The people behind Ximian are the people who originally developed GNOME. I believe that they are still active in the Gnome project. If I were you, I'd think about switching to Kubuntu.
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I was referring both to Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. One of them (MdI) is VP of Product Technology for Novell. The other is VP of Product Development. Your guess is as good as mine (probably, better) as to what they actually do. Incidentally, the Ximian group also developed Evolution. If one were sticking to projects that adhere to GPL3, you might have trouble finding an OS on which to run Gnome, or KDE. The last I saw, Linus was not too enthusiastic about GPL3.
Well, for one thing, Novell owns a company (now a division) called Ximian. The people behind Ximian are the people who originally developed GNOME. I believe that they are still active in the Gnome project. If I were you, I'd think about switching to Kubuntu.