Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Jul 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by vege
Earlier this year, the KDE team released the highly-anticipated 4th major revision of the KDE desktop. Instead of bringing evolutionary changes, KDE 4.0 effectively delivered a complete rewrite of KDE, and as a consequence the first release of the KDE 4 branch lacked a lot of features of KDE 3.x, while also being quite unstable and rough. Many even complained the KDE team shouldn't have released KDE 4.0 as 4.0, but rather as a developer preview release or something similar. During this storm of criticism, the KDE team calmly pointed out that KDE 4.1 would fix many, many of the issues people had with KDE 4.0. Starting today, there's no more pointing towards KDE 4.1: KDE 4.1 has been released today.
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Releasing of open source software doesn't work like that, it is NOT commercial software.
Perhaps some references might explain it a bit for you:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/stories/2002/12/01/understandingTh...
"If you are an ex-commercial developer then you want desperately to reach a "1.0" stage or a "near functional", "mostly baked" stage before going live. You wouldn't want to release something piece meal, would you? After all -- that's the way it's done.
Actually no. In the Open Source world, that's not how it's done."
This is not a new concept for open source:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22release+early+releas...
45,200 hits for the open source catchcry phrase that applies here ... "release early, release often".