On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:01 am, Bob Tanner wrote: > If I remember right, many of the core KDE developers are Suse employees. > Right? > > Now Novell is purchasing Suse, and they already bought Ximian, where does > that leave kde? I wasn't sure what to think about this. I couldn't in the short term at least see SuSE going over to Ximian/GNOME as it desktop. While you can run GNOME on SuSE, KDE is better integrated. Then I read some of the commentary on NewsForge. Along the lines of "Novell's main interest in Ximian is Mono and its ability to provide .net services." and "SuSE will help Mono reach into the enterprise." Maybe the question is where does it leave Gnome? IBM bought Lotus for Notes. It kept SmartSuite around for a while but eventually gave it up. So Lotus is now Notes/Domino and not much else. Hmm... That said, both are open source projects and both will survive any change in corporate allegiances. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list