[$] Distribution-friendly tactics in the desktop wars

For many aspiring projects, getting accepted and shipped by populardistributions is an important step toward a long and successful life. Buteven large and established projects can struggle in this area. The distributionoutreach program recently launched by the KDE project hosted adiscussion making it clear that KDE cannot count on the support ofdistributions without supporting them in turn. If the participants are tobe believed, KDE's second-place position in the desktop competition can at least partially be attributed tohow the project works with distributors.