Star Interview with SuSE's and KDE's Waldo Bastian
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 16th Jul 2002 20:01 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews OSNews is pleased to host today an exclusive interview with Waldo Bastian, the well known KDE developer and SuSE employee. Waldo has been involved pretty much in all levels in KDE's code, from Konqueror to kdelibs, to games and Kicker. Waldo speaks today about the success of KDE, its future, UnitedLinux, development and much more.
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Eternal battle?
by Arto Huusko on Wed 17th Jul 2002 09:13 UTC

Huh, I was disappointed to once again see a weird comment about some GNOME/KDE battle, which also praised KDE as being the winner. This is odd why OSNews also takes this path with issues that touch either GNOME or KDE.

However, it was nice to see that the response to the question was "correct". For, I don't believe there has ever been any (eternal or not) battle between GNOME and KDE. Sure, in the beginning GNOME got started because of KDE [not being free], but other than that, has there really been any battle?

The developers of both communities are just simply developing their projects. Neither has any agenda of attempting to bring the other project to an end, or to be better than the other project, or "win". They are developing for the project itself, and for the benefit of the community that uses the project.

Sure, there are flame wars and battles, but is it not so that these battles are between the (idiot) users of those projects. Sure, even the developers may end up in those flame wars, but that's unfortunately what humans do. The projects are not in combat, they are doing what they are doing and don't care about the other, as such (and when they do care, it seems that these days they care because they want to be compatible with each other).