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# 3.2. KDE The Desktop Environment

In combination with a free implementation of Unix, KDE provides to the world an open and completely free desktop computing platform for either at home or at work.

This platform is available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify.

While there will always be room for improvement we believe we have now delivered a viable alternative to some of the more commonly found and commercial operating systems/desktops combinations available today. It is our hope that the combination of Unix and KDE will finally bring the same open, reliable, stable, and monopoly free computing to the average computer user, that scientists and computing professionals world-wide have enjoyed for years.

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