From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:50:29 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: smoke-room@altlinux.ru Message-ID: <20050819145029.GO10848@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: smoke-room@altlinux.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: [room] Fwd: Re: oneline article: "Debian Alliance on The Horizon" X-BeenThere: smoke-room@altlinux.ru X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Id: =?koi8-r?b?y9XM2NTV0s7ZyiDPxtTP0MnL?= List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:50:31 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: ----- Forwarded message from Jeff Waugh ----- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:06:29 +1000 From: Jeff Waugh To: Ed Cogburn Subject: Re: oneline article: "Debian Alliance on The Horizon" Cc: sounder/lists.ubuntu.com > Canonical doesn't have to support KDE, I actually understand why Canonical > is favoring your baby over KDE right now, but don't pretend that allowing > the Kubuntu people a few hundred megabytes of storage space in Ubuntu's > repo is the same as "official support". It isn't. Ed, taking potshots is not helpful to the discussion - particularly given my incredibly vocal support of Kubuntu as *the* KDE distribution to present KDE at its very best. Matt explained what KDE-in-main means, in terms of support commitment from the Ubuntu community (and Canonical). I'll explain another side of it... The fact that it's Kubuntu, a project dedicated to making the KDE experience totally rock, and not "a bunch of guys maintaining KDE in Ubuntu" is very important. Ubuntu is built to be rebranded, repurposed and retargeted. That is why you'll see projects such as Mono and PostgreSQL using our (very easy to adapt) LiveCD to promote their projects. That's why you'll see projects such as Kubuntu and Edubuntu using Ubuntu as a platform, but focusing on a different goal or user profile. In Spain, you'll see Guadalinex and Molinux modifying and rebranding Ubuntu for the needs of their local government and users. You may not see it just yet, but our strong support of Kubuntu's *different and independent vision* gives it more strength than "KDE in Ubuntu" would ever have. :-) - Jeff -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 "I think of [commercial Open Source development] as being the biggest private investment in public works in decades." - Andrew Tridgell ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/