Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 27, 2003 03:06 PM
If there is a reason to pick Ximian over KDE it is the integration with OO.org I could believe that. However the arguments you provided are all utter BS. First of all KDE/Qt is enough more productive to develop on to easily justify $1500 for a license. Only an idiot or a zealot would not realize that it's a lot less than the $50K-$60K they're going to pay the guy to use it. At $50K that means it's paid for in 1 year with a 3% boost in efficiency which easily happens the first time you look for docs. That doesn't matter though because if they keep the application in house and don't distribute it there is NO licensing issue to begin with. Finally, KDE has long achived interface consistency with standard frameworks. You have to work to break consistency, unlike in Gnome where you are beat over the head to achieve it. Since Red hat has long been the leading distribution in the US and ships with a Gnome default desktop and KDE continues to be the favorite in surveys the rest of your post was either flame bait or people agreeing with you to get you to shut up.
Gnome is making great strides with their software, but still needs work on getting their zealots to stop FUDding KDE.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 27, 2003 03:06 PMGnome is making great strides with their software, but still needs work on getting their zealots to stop FUDding KDE.
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