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

Steve Hutton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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In article <1063762588.4525.84.camel@localhost>, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
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>> Well I think it's bollocks that developers prefer GNOME.=20

I tend to agree actually.
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>   I think a lot of it has to be that GTK+ is free no matter if you do
> proprietary or Free Software development. It might also be momentium.

Yes, I think a combination of the LGPL license for GTK and the fact
that Sun probably has many more C hackers than C++ hackers would make
it pretty easy to convince Sun management to choose GTK/GNOME.

Steve


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