Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:21:39 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010529112012.052768c0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010529112302.A3636@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost>
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At 03:23 AM 5/29/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >The problem is the >applicationss, and it's not really a lack of applications either -- >just a lack of the sort of applications people are used to in the >windows world. And even here, KDE has covered a *huge* amount of >ground in the last 18 months (KOffice, Konqueror, Kmail, etc) -- and >they've now declared that all their infrastructure is in place, They're all GPLed. This means that there will be little or no other development for the platform in their product categories, because -- thanks to the GPL's nastiness -- they will kill the market. Commercial developers will avoid the platform and it will languish. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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