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Actually no.. thats not entirely true u say debian unstable is just too unstable infact the unstable ive been running for years every now and then maybe for a few weeks a year it might go into a bit of turmoil.. when the turmoil starts u just stop updating till they sync everything again.. which takes tops a couple of weeks.. the volunteers put in a lot of hard work.. not just in making packages some of them do bug fixing etc.. like branden who is also one of the key members in xwin.org.

U say only a few core do the majority for kde their is nothing wrong with that.. except youll find that your key core may consist of several hundred.. if not more.. ultimately what goes into the kde bundle is up to a select few.. but a heck of alot of people contribute from suse to individuals.

"Microsoft does innovate though."

name me one thing they have innovated. or one thing new they have released..

well for linux atleast biggest innovation is the gnu/gpl itself.. what more can be said.. that in its own rights has brought more to the computing world than anything microsoft has.

http://slicker.sourceforge.net is a new style taskbar for kde in development which is innovation.. resier 4 is innovation. the list of innovations aint minute im sure there are people here who can expand this list.

infact linux has advanced so rapidly in the past few years that windows xp borrowed idea from gnome and kde.. can u imagine it by 2005 ?

at the end of the day.. universities and research centers are where new ideas are born.. maybe if ms spent half as much on creating new innovations instead of working out ways to crush competition then maybe they would have their first new thing that they bring to the computer world.. currently they still have brought nothing new..