[Klug-general] FLOSS donation

[David Halliday]

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> > What about the kernel project itself?
> Doesn't it already have lots of commercial/corporate support?
> See (2007): http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/


Thank you, I thought that the kernel was commercially backed but untill now
hadn't read any hard facts. Very interesting link.

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> > The GNU foundation?
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> Possibly, maybe... But wouldn't a smaller project gain more benefit
> from our donation?
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More than likely, I just thought I'd put it out there as a possible "catch
all" but I suppose it might be classed as a distro (As long as RMS doesn't
read that comment we are safe).


> I'd rather  put forward XFCE for the vote.
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> James.
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> Good point we have all mentioned the quality of that desktop environment,
how about also on the subject of window managers/desktop environments
http://lxde.org/ used in Lubuntu?
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