Ximian originally founded by Ventures Capital + Sun contracts + IBM
have a lot a hidden power
PR guys
smart engineers (Miguel Nat )
cool applications (beagle ifolder mono ecc )
cool gnome patches (gnome-panel with rounded edges stripe image into the menu and so on )
cool core gnome developers from nautilus (Dave Camp) to Evolution to bonobo
ecc
Novell has choosen Gnome as default desktop because they can lead the development
thanks to theirs key developers.
Ximian's ridiculous bullshit attitude spreading inside Novell help a company who were already totally rudderless and hadn't a clue what they were buying into.
Ximian originally founded by Ventures Capital + Sun contracts + IBM have a lot a hidden power PR guys smart engineers (Miguel Nat ) cool applications (beagle ifolder mono ecc ) cool gnome patches (gnome-panel with rounded edges stripe image into the menu and so on ) cool core gnome developers from nautilus (Dave Camp) to Evolution to bonobo ecc Novell has choosen Gnome as default desktop because they can lead the development thanks to theirs key developers.
Ximian's ridiculous bullshit attitude spreading inside Novell help a company who were already totally rudderless and hadn't a clue what they were buying into.
Thanks to the Gnome developers which are lobbing companies like RedHat and Novell now Linux will have only one desktop based with gtk libraries.
while they are sponsoring all those freaking projects like that (hula beagle mono) Suse Linux are loosing value because to gnome technologies
Novell is ready for Linux Servers
GDS 2.0 is fantastic you did a good job google yeah :D
what about kde packages ? autopackage at that time seem to support only GNOME grrr