On Saturday 12 May 2001 07:27 pm, you wrote:
> Gnome isn't going anywhere, it is replacing CDE on most commercial
> unixes.. KDE though is attracting a lot of 3rd party apps that gnome
> isn't.. Regardless most of the apps I use are gnome apps.. (I'm a
> WindowMaker guy myself.. Less bloat more filling..)
>
> Andrew
andrew, do u have a problem by any chance with say gnome
and some of the other desktops becoming compatible with
KDE, so that eventually most of the desktops can run the
same problems. ( most) not all :)
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, patrick wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 May 2001 06:14 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Sat, 12 May 2001, patrick wrote:
> > > > does anyone have any information as to the validity of this article.
> > > >
> > > > > http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00020.asp
> > >
> > > Sure -- here is some unflattering information on the fashion
> > > in which the article is offered. It is trollbait by another
> > > 'follow in the footsteps Mandrake newbie', presented on a host
> > > running IIS (a Microsoft product), offering a printable form
> > > in Word97 file (a Microsoft format), on a host served by two
> > > nameservers in the same subnet (just like Microsoft), in
> > > primitive layout -- 'one big article'.
> > >
> > > It uses HTML containing Microsoft proprietary font suggestions
> > > as its first two offerings "<Font
> > > Face="tahoma,arial,helvetica" size="2" color="#000000">", and
> > > is seemingly designed to produce ad impressing "<!--- START
> > > HARDOCP pays us nothing per click button we just do this
> > > cause we're nice --->" It uses artifacts to push content at
> > > web-browsers to up hit counters.
> > >
> > > Tell me -- you posted the link twice without summarizing
> > > it. Were you trying to drive traffic at the site?
> > >
> > > -- Russ Herrold
> >
> > actually no i wasnt trying to drive traffic. if the article is correct
> > and gnome's players are in trouble i suggested they join
> > up with the KDE team. if the article is inaccurate then i guess
> > i did drive up the traffic inadvertently. i do have opinion and i
> > am not wishing gnome people any bad will . that is why
> > i was asking around to get some verification about the article.
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