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Posted Feb 9, 2006 8:54 UTC (Thu) by morhippo (subscriber, #334)
Parent article: Looking a Novell gift horse in the mouth

Maybe Novell could have a look at the decision processes of KDE, which are different fromt he kernel alltogether, since there is no single clear leader figure.

Many design decisions have been taken there and there is no corporate steering of the project I am aware of. Nevertheless corporate contributions have frequently been added (e.g. from Corel and SuSE).

In the end: He who codes decides...

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Posted Feb 9, 2006 9:12 UTC (Thu) by alonso (subscriber, #2828) [Link]

I completly agree with you, and this is a point badly miss in the article.

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Posted Feb 9, 2006 11:25 UTC (Thu) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]

There's no corporate steering of GNOME, plenty of corporate contributions, great relationships with distributors and other organisations, and GNOME very much adopts the "he who codes, decides" meritocratic approach. I think you may be missing the point, here. :-)

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Posted Feb 9, 2006 16:31 UTC (Thu) by maro (guest, #34315) [Link]

I agree that KDE is a better example, but I think the central issue is
commercial interests. In KDE, it's my feeling that there are more
individuals involved, and a good part (most?) of the core team are
sponsored by Trolltech.

Trolltech's interest in KDE is to make more developers use Qt (for free
when working on open source projects at home - the boss paying for a
license when writing proprietary software at work), not to create a
competing product like the companies involved with GNOME.