[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat and KDE

[karl thiele]

Brent Fox wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 11:42, karl thiele wrote:
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>>Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
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>>>On Saturday 24 May 2003 02:282am, karl thiele wrote:
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>>>>Who runs KDE with Red Hat?
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>>>Me. Sometimes.
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>>>>Do you like the support you get for KDE in the RH distributions?
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>>>Uhhh... what do you mean? 
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>>>This month someone discovered a vulnerability in KDE... and RedHat 
>>>promptly released a patched KDE right away.
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>>Well RH provides updates to what they feel ought to belong in KDE, if
>>you compare what installs from source from kde and what comes from RH,
>>RH leaves out features. RH does not seem compelled to keep up with kde
>>releases.
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>For what it's worth, Red Hat treats Gnome the same way.  Play with Gnome
>out of CVS and then look at Red Hat's default Gnome setup...they look
>totally different.  Also, Red Hat does not release new RPMs every time a
>new version of Gnome or KDE comes out.  Rather, we wait until the next
>release to provide the new KDE and Gnome releases.  Yet somehow many
>people interpret this as favoring Gnome and giving KDE "the shaft".  The
>mind boggles.
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Just goes to show that RH is really a company interested in profits, buy 
my upgrade every 6 months. The people this hurts most are the individual 
who want to keep up with the lastest but are not technical enough to do 
it on thier own and rely on the distributions to provide upgrades. In 
this regard the distributors are no different than any other software 
vendor, except by GPL, they have to give it away for free and in source. 
I wonder how they would do business if the GPL was not in place?

I thought with RH interest and support of Gnome the support would follow 
suit. I do not keep up with Gnome, actually not with kde, just when it 
strikes me too. Well I quess you comment is not surprizing. Well I 
understand the look would be different, got to have RH logos everywhere. 
Isn't the functionality the same???

-karl

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>   Brent
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