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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sun 13th Jul 2008 19:28 UTC, submitted by troy.unrau

Groklaw has interviewed KDE about some recent misconceptions about KDE 4. "There has been a bit of a dustup about KDE 4.0. A lot of opinions have been expressed, but I thought you might like to hear from KDE. So I wrote to them and asked if they'd be willing to explain their choices and answer the main complaints. They graciously agreed."

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RE[4]: A quote from the LHB

by google_ninja on Sun 13th Jul 2008 22:46 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: A quote from the LHB"

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And tell me, when was the last time that MS fixed a bug you reported to them? or added a feature you asked for?

I work for a microsoft gold partner, and our VP of development is an MVP. When we report bugs, they get addressed.

As for features, a month ago I made a good argument for supporting POCO objects in dynamic data, and with the latest push we got a DynamicObjectDataSource that does just that.

And don't tell me Word, Outlook, IE, Visio, etc. has never crashed on you, taking away your time or your work. There is this bug with MS Word, where it crashes with a 'not enough memory' when opening a document. It's been there since Office 95, instead of fixing it, MS gives me a ribbon instead... Yes, Companies are so much better at listening to their users, sure.

I'm not saying that. I am saying that the vast majority of linux software is pre 1.0, which by its version number means the DEVELOPERS WRITING IT do not believe it is production ready.

And just so you don't think im just bashing linux, I also think by and large the GUI apps on windows leave a lot to be desired in terms of usability, consistency, and esthetic, especially when compared to mac apps. And that if you ignore tooling, free software really sets the bar on infrastructure stuff and protocol specs.

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