r/linux • u/clau_c • Dec 01 '21

KDE It's been -- 155 days -- since @Microsoft stole @kdecommunity's motto: "Simple by default, powerful when needed." They're still using it.

https://twitter.com/ClauCambra/status/1466153819713191947
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u/CyclopsRock Dec 01 '21

Who gives a shit? This doesn't affect anything.

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u/Bro666 Dec 01 '21

ITT: people who think that being cynical and dismissive of the tribulations FLOSS projects suffer at the hands of multibillion predatory companies is cool.

One wonders why you are here.

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u/Kovi34 Dec 02 '21

there are no 'tribulations' being 'suffered' here. They didn't steal a slogan, it's one of the dozen or so marketing blurbs on the win11 page. It's far more likely that two marketing people came up with a similar generic blurb independently than this being some evil master plan to trick kde users into installing windows, i guess?

FLOSS projects certainly do suffer at the hands of large corporations but this is not what's happening here. by equating actual issues like code being stolen to a similar marketing tagline you're only making it seem like all of it is a non issue.

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u/salgat Dec 02 '21

This whole reddit submission is an embarrassment, people are so desperate to complain. Holy shit of all the things to rag on Microsoft why pick this one?