Report: KDE at Comdex [LWN.net]

Report: KDE at Comdex

Posted Nov 25, 2003 0:07 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: Report: KDE at Comdex by crouchet
Parent article: Report: KDE at Comdex

I think there is some formal and well-defined "accessibility" requirement which if not fulfilled prevents use e.g. by governments.

Other stuff:
- Despite claims to the contrary, Mozilla's Java on Linux is still somewhat consistently broken for me (18 months old distribution so there's a problem)
- The remote admin stuff is at least not standardized. What he's probably saying is that a corporate help desk guy will want an easy GUI to remote admin some user's computer, instead of hacking a config file and rebooting ...

The interesting bit in the report is about Microsoft. He claims that Microsoft is starting to visibly fear Linux, and that certainly I have heard from other sources, too. I doubt that M$ is all a-trembling and a-shivering, they are a too string company for that. But they face some real competition again, and they know it :-)

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Report: KDE at Comdex

Posted Nov 25, 2003 16:18 UTC (Tue) by djabsolut (guest, #12799) [Link]

We had regular visits from Microsoft employees! They wanted demos of KDE, to see how it works and what we have. What an interesting situation. I soon discovered that this was not the only place that Microsoft people were doing investigations.

Oh dear, what's next? Dealing with Microsoft is like dealing with the devil - you can't trust it. I wouldn't be surprised if the information they gleaned about KDE will be used in some new FUD campaign against KDE and open source in general.