That depends on how large your company is and what your contract says. The EULA only affects little operations and retail purchasers. Companies that have ten thousand licenses or even 100,000 licenses are bound by their agreements with Microsoft, not some shrink wrap agreement.
KDE and Gnome Will Always Be Crummy
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No matter what anyone who is a big fan of open source development says, KDE and Gnome will continue to look half-baked for eternity. The big reason for that is that no decent artist worth his paycheck is ever going to bother to work in a Unix environment for free. The very idea is insipid.
Gnome will continue to be this dark world where geeks have Matrix themed desktops, and KDE will continue to look like it was made from cheap plastic. Microsoft can afford to make the artists sell their souls, and the Apple world just snaps their fingers to get the best art in the world.
The stuff that makes up Linux desktop GUIs is always going to be made by the second-hand artist who is not good enough to work for MS or Apple.
Thus, the desktops are doomed to mediocrity.
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That depends on how large your company is and what your contract says. The EULA only affects little operations and retail purchasers. Companies that have ten thousand licenses or even 100,000 licenses are bound by their agreements with Microsoft, not some shrink wrap agreement.
No matter what anyone who is a big fan of open source development says, KDE and Gnome will continue to look half-baked for eternity. The big reason for that is that no decent artist worth his paycheck is ever going to bother to work in a Unix environment for free. The very idea is insipid. Gnome will continue to be this dark world where geeks have Matrix themed desktops, and KDE will continue to look like it was made from cheap plastic. Microsoft can afford to make the artists sell their souls, and the Apple world just snaps their fingers to get the best art in the world. The stuff that makes up Linux desktop GUIs is always going to be made by the second-hand artist who is not good enough to work for MS or Apple. Thus, the desktops are doomed to mediocrity.