<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> Hello Everybody > I think if it were a brand new project it should have a new name. But the > way I understand it it is still ubuntu+kde. Joke name or not Kubuntu is > now an established name in the *nix community. My vote would be stick with > the name everyone knows. Also I really prefer to stick to the name "Kubuntu". A new name would need a lot of extra marketing effort. From retrospective point of view, the partly withdrawel of Canonical as sponsor of Kubuntu might be a blessing in disguise. Now, there are in fact several sponsors: <ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">"Blue Systems";</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">the Ubuntu and Kubuntu communities;</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">still Canonical;</li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">......</li></ul> This creates a much more healthy, independent situation. We could consider bringing together Kubuntu related projects in a kind of cooperative enterprise: with a view to spreading our resources a bit more. Respectfully yours, Bas Roufs. -- Bas G. Roufs MA Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht The Netherlands E. BasRoufs@gmail.com Mob. +31 6 446 835 10 Tel. +31 30 785 40 Websites in construction: <ul type="circle" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://basroufs.eu/">BasRoufs.eu</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://viaconsensus.nl/">Viaconsensus.nl</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://rainbowgathering.eu/">RainbowGathering.eu</a> </li></ul> Open source OS: <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Linux Kubuntu 11.10.</a> </body></html>