On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:29:17PM +0100, Ralf Nolden scrawled: > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 13:21, Daniel Stone wrote: > > ioport needs to be removed from the xbase-clients.files file or it's > conflicting with xserver-xfree86 *grmbl* That's what you get when merging ds2 > with ds3v1 :-} Heh. :) I've fixed xf86cfg/xf86config locally, but I can't truthfully say I'm expecting ds3v2/ds4 before next week. > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:06:09AM +0100, Ralf Nolden scrawled: > > Hi Ralf! > > I'd just like to say that that's an excellent idea. I personally > > wouldn't get it (I run sid at home, and work uses sarge, with a fair few > > backports), but I think it's a great idea, especially if KDE e.V. is > > involved. > > Well, as others already pointed out the problem is that it gets soon obsolete > before you send it off to the one buying it. maybe downloadable ISOs would > help ? I mean, in the end it's all for free anyway - it points to the > growing software problem that everyone takes everything for free. Doing work > for debian and kde for free is not the problem but the problem is how do I > buy bread and butter ? :-) Most importantly how do we offer people a service > through KDE e.V. that could help the e.V. do its work better ? Well, it depends who you're selling to. Does $averageuser know, or care, that they're a point release behind? As for how to feed yourself, that depends. If you can find someone who will pay you to work on free software, that's really cool. I think getting KDE eV some more cash is an excellent idea, but with so many developers, who do you sponsor? It's a tough question. > As commercial distros get less and their money shrinks so will their support > for KDE in terms of employing people fulltime like Waldo. So I'm trying to > find a way that will possibly lead us to the situation where the KDE project > can finance itself better and maybe in a the future being able to employ > developers. Maybe the task now is to convince large companies (non-distributors) that they need KDE, and that employing someone to work on KDE will help them significantly. Speaking for myself, and myself only, Daniel -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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