His patent number is 5,594,289.
It's not he's keeping this a huge secret.. why not get one of the 40,000 fans he's selling and test it???
Are we not geeks?
Realize that the nuclear of today is not the nuclear of yesterday.. our understanding of physics is better, the engineering is better and we are now aware of the importance of safety mesaures to protect the environment in the case of spacecraft failure.
This is a negative impact on KDE and the tone of the article suggests that Gnome will become the defacto standard for Novell/Suse.. this makes a lot of sense, not only because Novell owns Ximian but because.. as the article states, they want to give a 'single target to ISV's'.
Since RedHat is already Gnome centered..this target is and will be GTK+, which allows for third party linking without them having to pay licensing fees.. this is where the choice of QT finally comes and bites KDE... sad but true, a little ironic though... that KDE loses out because it is not friendly enough to corporate types vis-a-vis QT* while Gnome will win(at least it looks like it will) because it is.
*For those in need of a li'l background QT is licensed under the GPL while GTK+ is dual licensed under the GPL and LGPL. So, QT free(as in speech & beer) for GPL apps but not as in beer for non-GPL apps and while this is fine and dandy for community projects corporations will never pay a 'gatekeeper' if they want to release applications for the 'standard' desktop(even Mickeysoft doesn't charge that.. let's ignore MSDN for now).
Debian is losing developers because they are a rigid and well-defined organization.. one of their biggest strengths and their biggest weakness. People who volunteer their time don't like to be confined in little boxes. In addition, Debian just isn't cool, sexy, exciting, hip.. etc. it's your dad's linux.. who wants to work on that? Gentoo, Fedora, etc. are moving forward, taking risks and *successfully* meeting their challenges.
Circling the wagons around Debian is not the answer, fixing Debian so it has clear goals, integrates new technology better, and has less overhead is the answer..
*Disclaimer* I run Debian, Gentoo, and RH9 on my boxes.. trying Fedora later this week. I think Fedora is officially a Good Thing(TM).
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His patent number is 5,594,289. It's not he's keeping this a huge secret.. why not get one of the 40,000 fans he's selling and test it??? Are we not geeks?
Realize that the nuclear of today is not the nuclear of yesterday.. our understanding of physics is better, the engineering is better and we are now aware of the importance of safety mesaures to protect the environment in the case of spacecraft failure.
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This is a negative impact on KDE and the tone of the article suggests that Gnome will become the defacto standard for Novell/Suse.. this makes a lot of sense, not only because Novell owns Ximian but because.. as the article states, they want to give a 'single target to ISV's'.
Since RedHat is already Gnome centered..this target is and will be GTK+, which allows for third party linking without them having to pay licensing fees.. this is where the choice of QT finally comes and bites KDE... sad but true, a little ironic though... that KDE loses out because it is not friendly enough to corporate types vis-a-vis QT* while Gnome will win(at least it looks like it will) because it is.
*For those in need of a li'l background QT is licensed under the GPL while GTK+ is dual licensed under the GPL and LGPL. So, QT free(as in speech & beer) for GPL apps but not as in beer for non-GPL apps and while this is fine and dandy for community projects corporations will never pay a 'gatekeeper' if they want to release applications for the 'standard' desktop(even Mickeysoft doesn't charge that.. let's ignore MSDN for now).
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Debian is losing developers because they are a rigid and well-defined organization.. one of their biggest strengths and their biggest weakness. People who volunteer their time don't like to be confined in little boxes. In addition, Debian just isn't cool, sexy, exciting, hip.. etc. it's your dad's linux.. who wants to work on that? Gentoo, Fedora, etc. are moving forward, taking risks and *successfully* meeting their challenges.
Circling the wagons around Debian is not the answer, fixing Debian so it has clear goals, integrates new technology better, and has less overhead is the answer..
*Disclaimer* I run Debian, Gentoo, and RH9 on my boxes.. trying Fedora later this week. I think Fedora is officially a Good Thing(TM).