
A KDE developer tipped me off to a
recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding
interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an
interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
> why didn't Redhat, a company that claims to be interested in desktop market, take some of the $700,000,000+ they spent on a compiler company
When they did that, Red Hat had all the money they needed from their IPO. It is not 1999 anymore, remember?
Additionally, Red Hat only became interested in the corporate desktop market only last year, especially after their contracts with Sun.
So as you can see, you have to think a bit with "timing" in order to answer this question.