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Linux and Main: KDE: Report of our Switch to Mono is Greatly Exaggerated

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 12, 2002

“KDE developers are denying a published report that the project
has adopted Ximian, Inc.’s Mono framework.

“The article, published in The Register, positions KDE as
‘possibly the first real-world adopter of Project Mono for
application development.’

“But KDE developers say that while work involving Mono is being
undertaken by developers at Trolltech, publisher of the QT toolkit
on which KDE is largely based, and perhaps there is hacking toward
Mono bindings for KDE, the project is far from committing to or
adopting Mono…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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