Official status of Kubuntu, KDE (Re: oneline article: "Debian Alliance on The Horizon")

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:54:53PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > For what it's worth, I do think your tone has been unnecessarily harsh.  I
> > simply chose not to respond to it and to address the facts instead.
> 
> Hmm, define harsh, because I don't get it.

Hostile, confrontational and irrational.

> > So far, the only concrete points you've raised that lead you to believe
> > that KDE doesn't meet your personal definition of "official support" are:
> > 
> > - Less availability of official pressed CDs
> > - Distinct branding
> 
> 
> Where 'branding' means Canonical == Ubuntu but Kubuntu != Ubuntu, thus
> Canonical != Kubuntu, which has been my point all along.

The problem with this syllogism is that the premise is wrong, as has been
explained to you several times already.

Furthermore, this has nothing to do with branding.  None of these
distributions have Canonical branding.  They are each uniquely focused and
have their own distinct branding which is based on their audience.

-- 
 - mdz