Re: [seul-edu] KDE or GNOME? Institutional Values

["Justin Swain" <justin-r-swain@att.net>]

Management Science from the of schools of "If we can not see it, feel it, or
taste it - we don't understand it", "We don't wanta break off the
relationship with our legacy suppliers - we're all close friends", "We don't
want to be confused by new facts - we are conformable with the status quo"
and "I prefer to avoid decisions and actions other than how to spend my
paycheck."

Are you in a position to have the board meet, hear or otherwise interact
with Linux, KDE and GNOME users and implementers of organizations the board
members may identify with? Is it possible to provide a demonstration model
for the board or their assigned to evaluate?

Best wishes in your endeavor - I was part of an emotion oriented management
environment where the primary goal was for the managers collectively to feel
good as a group. Analysis of facts related to economy of operation and means
of best addressing customer service were low on their priority list. This
past month the COO split the existing business into four independent
organization - which may succeed or fail on their own.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Brown <brownie2001@mailandnews.com>
To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 17:10
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] KDE or GNOME?


> Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 26 November 2000 19:11, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> >> After reading the message on KDE-EDU, it has sparked a question for me
> >> to ask: KDE or GNOME? I like GNOME because of its Open Source nature
> >> but the students don't really care about OSS. So would GNOME or KDE be
> >> a better choice?
> >
> > KDE has more Open Source nature than GNOME.
>
> The GPL is more OSS friendly than QPL, isn't it (isn't Qt governed by
> the QPL???)
>
> >  The KDE-core-developers are
> > more friendly than the GNOME-core-developers.
> > Some students care about OSS (at least I do).
>
> The average student doesn't but I know there people like you, me and
> other OSS advocates.
> I have even wrote letters to the board and they have replied saying it
> would be a good idea but have done nothing about it. Now about 6 months
> after I wrote the proposal, and explaining Samba, etc. they are
> replacing Novell with NT. This makes me mad (i even know the board
> recieved the letter cuz one of my teachers found it funny. grrrr.....).
> I don't care if its KDE, GNOME, IceWM or even console I WANT LINUX IN MY
> SCHOOL!!!!
>
> My school board can be reached at: www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/
>
> > KDE 2.0 is technically better than GNOME 1.x and there is
> > http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?section=kde20devel which helps a lot
> > to start a KDE 2.0 programm.
> > KDE 2.0 uses Konqueror which is the most efficient tool I ever used.
> > http://www.konqueror.org
>
> Konqueror is better, bar none, but Eazels new product might create some
> competition.
>
> >
> >
> > Max Moritz Sievers
> >
> >
>
> Kevin Brown.
>
>