NewsForge: KDE and GNOME Collaborating on Free Desktop Promotion | Linux Today

NewsForge: KDE and GNOME Collaborating on Free Desktop Promotion

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 19, 2006

“A quiet revolution is taking place on a young mailing list, one
that overturns years of false enmity and makes perfect sense to
most free software users. Having competed for the free desktop
crown since 1997, collaborating on code but never on promotion, KDE
and GNOME have launched an initiative to market and promote the
free desktop together.

“While each project will continue its own marketing and
promotion projects, the new cooperation recognizes how much each
project has to gain from taking market share from the proprietary
competition…”

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Web Webster

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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