AbiWord Weekly News . The AbiWord Weekly News is back with its first issue since early September . On the Desktop KDE, Gnome And The Media . Others have told me that we journalists view the world more in terms of black and white than the wider population. There is a reason for this.
News writing is, in effect, the first draft of history.
Or in more scientific terms, it is simply the first approximation to the truth. By its very nature it has to be simplified, we can't spend hours chasing down every loose fact because there are deadlines. And we can't lard our stories with qualifications to every statement because it makes them unreadable. This drive for speed and clarity leads towards a dualistic view. In another in its series of developer profiles, the People Behind KDE talks with Sandy Meier .