Maybe you should ask for your money back...
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@torben @01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
They also copied the slogan for KDE Plasma 5 ("Simple by default, powerful when needed") and used a thinly veiled variation to promote Windows 11.
https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
They were also notified and they again ignored the notification.
@torben @01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Interestingly related: when KDE devs complained to Microsoft that, due to the fact that name of their new product and similarity in functionality to KDE's own Maui project
they were causing confusion and potentially violating KDE's trademark, in the Microsoft forums KDE was told to sue them or f**k off.
KDE does not have much money, much less enough to embark in a costly legal battle with Microsoft with a doubtful outcome.
@01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
How can they ever be. one is greedy predatory megacorporation only motivated by power and money.
The other is a grassroots volunteer-powered association that explicitly advocates both in word and action improving the lot of fellow humans by giving control over technology to everybody.
They both produce software which is often functionally similar. A collision sooner or later is inevitable.
@01adrianrdgz @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Take it from an old-timer: Microsoft would crush KDE without a second thought if it ever grew beyond what they considered acceptable in the desktop/end user market share.
All the MS ❤️ Linux is at best for servers only, not anything that can benefit the common people. KDE aims for the common people.
At worst it is PR bullshit ( ⬅️ it's this one).
@limitedduck @failedLyndonLaRouchite
To add to this: Kdenlive team members are volunteers and KDE is not a company. They do it because they want to do it.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
For those curious, the "Building #Plasma6 " animation was made using @kdenlive and then @krita's cel-animation feature.
The whole thing was then finally put together again in Kdenlive.
Yes, we eat our own dog food at #KDE.
After a couple of false starts, the Krita animation tool proved surprisingly easy to use.
Here is the whole thing, but smooth:
@rriemann @mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
@rriemann @mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Elisa is currently the most popular music player from KDE:
Apart from both being music players, Amarok and Elisa are not very similar. Elisa (supposedly) works on mobile too (but it is not all there yet), and is much simpler than Amarok.
The nearest thing to Amarok may be Strawberry...
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
... a fork of Clementine...
https://www.clementine-player.org/
... Clementine being a fork of Amarok.
@mfraz74 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Right... Amarok has been kinda semi-abandoned for some time. Obviously these two, Task Manager and Amarok, had overlapping shortcuts and nobody realised.
@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair's breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans -- including the browser war thing that you mention.
But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words "was elected") and he swept all that away.