Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 9th Apr 2006 18:10 UTC, submitted by Jack Dawson
Troubles for the Kubuntu project: a number of Kubuntu developers are complaining that Canonical is not answering their requests. They state: "We all from the kubuntu.de-team have pursued this aim [to improve Kubuntu] together, but most of the work has been done by Andreas Mueller (amu). He is not only co-founder and unpayed developer of the Kubuntu-project, but he's also hosting this website and he's taking over all the arising expenses. During our endeavours for Kubuntu, there were made several requests to Canonical. All those requests are unanswered 'till today! Up to now, there is only one payed developer. Since Canonical ignores all our personal and partly financial engagement until now we have to assume that Canonical is not willing to make Kubuntu a '1st class distribution'."
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2006-04-04
They could base it on debian or ubuntu or whatever, but as long as they let 3rd parties take responsibility for promoting their desktop it'll never go anywhere.
There are lots of advantages to this. First off, they control all libraries on the system as well as the kernel builds. They can take advantage of features that another distro wouldn't.
One of the reasons so many people are switching to OSX from Linux is because OSX is a cohesive system. KDE could build that cohesive system. They could even have a KDE-BSD, but the point is that the entire stack all the way down would be under their control.
Of course this goes against the groupthink mentality that Linux has built up over the years, but things don't change unless you're willing to make a change.