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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:29:25PM +0100, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> Dne 10.2.2014 12:09, Richard Hughes napsal(a):
> >On 10 February 2014 10:02, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> >>I find the idea that the long and historic relationship between GNOME and
> >>Fedora could turn around so quickly like that to be very strange
> >
> >The fact we're even considering asking the question "which DE do we
> >want to use for workstation" is just crazy. I think we're kidding
> >ourselves if we want to try and answer that question honestly when the
> >biggest backer of the project by several orders of magnitude has
> >several hundred engineers working full time on GNOME and lower parts
> 
> I think you've made a typo here (hundreds???)

This is not a typo.  If you consider not just GNOME but the lower
parts of the stack on which GNOME relies (as Colin wrote), it is
actually hundreds.  Of course, some of those lower parts of the stack
are likely shared by many DEs, in varying amounts, but it's still
accurate.

> >of the stack that GNOME uses. If I remember correctly, we have about
> >two employees on all of KDE, and one on XFCE. None on LXDE. None on
> 
> and here as well...

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