Re: Sun de-emphasizes GNOME devel platform, supports KDE apps

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 2:11 am, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Steve Hutton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Interesting, I guess I can see some sort of small consistancy in
> > their strategy if they are positioning Sun Linux as a development
> > platform.  To see the consistancy you have to accept that the reason
> > Sun chose GNOME over KDE was on the advice of their internal development
> > staff and other C hackers.  I think they tried to "pick the one
> > developers will like best."
>
> I don't understand your logic.  If anything it seems to me that they
> don't want to encourage developers to develop for the GNOME platform,
> but rather develop for the Java platform.  It's not "Sun Linux" at
> all...  it's "Java Desktop".

If this is intended as a platform to be used for development then it makes 
sense to provide the desktop that developers prefer to use, even if they're 
not developing for that desktop. There's a certain twisted logic.

> > Certainly Sun's track record on the desktop is not particularly strong,
> > even in recent years.  They remind us again here by pushing Java client
> > development.
>
> Java is actually quite nice and clean as a development platform.

Just plain nasty for the end user though.

-- 
Dan.

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