He meant "only capitals in Europe", as the legend officially goes. There were so many countries in WWII action, that if you would really count all, you would get also more other capitals than just Canberra and Washington D.C. in addition to Helsinki and London.
The author writes "well-known commercial PROJECTS", not "well-known commercial PRODUCTS".
So he means the way of making software and not
what GNOME/KDE look like. And in that sense
GNOME is really becoming a playground for big companies, and KDE is staying more as a project by coders themselves.
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He meant "only capitals in Europe", as the legend officially goes. There were so many countries in WWII action, that if you would really count all, you would get also more other capitals than just Canberra and Washington D.C. in addition to Helsinki and London.
The author writes "well-known commercial PROJECTS", not "well-known commercial PRODUCTS". So he means the way of making software and not what GNOME/KDE look like. And in that sense GNOME is really becoming a playground for big companies, and KDE is staying more as a project by coders themselves.
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