How Software is Built - Interview with Wade Olson from KDE

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 05/03/2008 - 01:11

Background of KDE and comparison to GNOME, ensuring usability in an open source project, managing interoperability among components, impact of commercial acquisition of open source projects, cross-platform support in KDE, reaction to KDE 4 public release.


 

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