oneline article: "Debian Alliance on The Horizon"

[Ed Cogburn]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Ed Cogburn">
> 
>> > Note that the Kubuntu KDE packages are all in Ubuntu main.
>> 
>> Which means nothing of course if KDE isn't officially supported by Ubuntu
>> and available as an official option to GNOME.  That's what I was
>> referring to.
>> 
>> > I'd disagree with your assessment though -> short term, having Ubuntu
>> > and Kubuntu is good for our market share,
>> 
>> Except that Kubuntu isn't officially supported by Canical, if it were, it
>> wouldn't need its own name.  :)
> 
> The KDE packages are in Ubuntu *main*.


And they're supported/maintained by volunteers outside of Canonical.  We
have a different idea of what "official" means, I guess.  To me, official
support means you don't need a different name or a separate website.  :)


>> I believe that because I simply don't see GNOME as being able to satisfy
>> everyone, and less folk as time goes on, given that it doesn't seem to
>> have any coherent vision directing its future, its future direction seems
>> to be only whatever Red Hat wants it to be, but RH is only interested in
>> the corporate desktop, not end-users....
> 
> (GNOME is not directed at the whims of Red Hat, and has had an extremely
> coherent vision for the past few years, which has resulted in it being the
> choice of all the major distros and ISVs, particularly those focused on
> the enterprise, which is the main growth area for the Linux desktop right
> now.)


Well said, I'd expect no less from a famous GNOME evangelist.  Are you still
the "Head Beekeeper", btw?  I'll stop now, this is fast going nowhere
good.  :)