I never really thought about KDE as a brand, more as a bunch of software that happen to implement a desktop, of which I use only the taskbar, the calculator and 'konsole'.
The word 'community' is also not what's on my mind when I look at KDE, that is a very developer centric view of the world, to most people KDE really is a little 'k' logo on their taskbar and that's about it.
All the rest of the application level stuff could disappear from my system tomorrow and I probably would not miss it.
And I don't really care much about what it is called.
Brands are a requirement for commercial software, open source doesn't really need brands.
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[ 1378 ms ] story [ 499 ms ] threadThe word 'community' is also not what's on my mind when I look at KDE, that is a very developer centric view of the world, to most people KDE really is a little 'k' logo on their taskbar and that's about it.
All the rest of the application level stuff could disappear from my system tomorrow and I probably would not miss it.
And I don't really care much about what it is called.
Brands are a requirement for commercial software, open source doesn't really need brands.
Imagine, GNU as a brand ? emacs ? gnome ? GCC ?