KDE for M$ Kernel?what about GPL codes inside

[praka123]

I have been pondering as of late about KDE being able to run on the M$ Kernel. What are the benefits of this upcoming capability? What exactly does it mean to the KDE FOSS community? What changes in the KDE community are going to take place as a result? What

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In the end the KDE FOSS community will get the shaft and struggle to make sure their GPL’d code is kept out of the proprietary programs. Now that is the real change that the KDE FOSS community may be facing with this port to the M$ Kernel. Not an influx of willing contributors! You can expect the push to remove the apps to come to a boiling point in the near future. For the time being Trolltech probably will turn up the heat just enough to make everyone cozy and comfortable with the idea. Just wait until there is a gental proposal from one of many to change the name of KDE to something more “marketable.”

*pclessgeek.wordpress.com/2006/11/23/kdem0/#comments

KDE is going the same way as Novell does with M$.KDE's FLOSS developers/contributers,watch ur future with other DE rather than with QT.
*aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/11/thoughts-on-framing-kde.html

 

[mediator]

Looks like MS is employing the use of good old evergreen technique => divide and conquer , to maintain its dominance!

 

[eddie]

Oh my god...there is a limit to paranoia but this is just going overboard...

There are various examples available of successful cross-platform applications. Look at OpenOffice...look at Firefox...look at Thunderbird...look at Gaim!!! Are they doing bad for themselves by providing ports for Windows? No one makes any hullabaloo when GNOME ports its Office components (look at Abiword and Gnumeric) but as soon as KDE plans to do something like this...they are being compared to Novell and people are predicting dooms day for them?

...and what is this stupidity about KDE being Qt's demo-ware? Can we call GNOME and all GTK based apps as GTK's demo ware? Just because Qt is trying to make some money out of their excellent work...they are the bad guys? Qt has NO say in KDE's decision making process and even if Aaron works for them...it doesn't mean he can make all the decisions for KDE. BTW where does Microsoft come in this picture?

 

[desertwind]

And it's the first step to move forward to a complete freedom desk. Use Free softwares for windows first, then change the OS itself. That's the reason why even FSF supplies gnuwin CD, which contains free software for windows.

 

[JGuru]

That should be M$ idea of a demo version of KDE for Windows!!!