KDE vs GNOME

KDE vs GNOME

Posted Nov 4, 2003 21:57 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: KDE vs GNOME by mdekkers
Parent article: On Novell's acquisition of SUSE

I think that Novell will probably start dropping the vast majority of packages that come with SUSE [snip]

Probably. I expect a lot of stuff will be moved from the main installation discs to a set of "extras" (which is to say, unsupported) discs, or available via FTP only, etc. KDE might end up there too, at least in the US market.

Software support is expensive, and from the point of view of a commercial software vendor the only software worth supporting is that which generates significant revenue. This would tend to work against software packages that duplicate the functionality of other packages.

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