Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 16:11 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive direction for this debate."
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Member since:2005-11-21
I'm not part of the KDE dev team, but I sincerely apologize for giving you years of hard work for free. No, really, I'm sure they're returning your money right now. Wait... you didn't pay anything.
Put your money where your mouth is and get designing and coding sir and quit bitching about something you're not forced to use and didn't cost you a dime.
Put your money where your mouth is and get designing and coding sir and quit bitching about something you're not forced to use and didn't cost you a dime.
The knife cuts both ways. The exposure and useage of KDE has exposed the developers to career opportunities for many corporations who pay handsomely for their hobby.
Both sides have a rather co-dependent relationship and from the outside each has their merits of position to defend, but equally have a defenseless position which results in the present series of rants.
No highly visible FOSS project is advanced and adopted by corporations without those developers benefiting in their careers.
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2006-09-22
I'm not part of the KDE dev team, but I sincerely apologize for giving you years of hard work for free. No, really, I'm sure they're returning your money right now. Wait... you didn't pay anything.
Put your money where your mouth is and get designing and coding sir and quit bitching about something you're not forced to use and didn't cost you a dime.