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[2]: A quote from the LHB
by Kokopelli on Sun 13th Jul 2008 22:18
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For some reason, Apple did exactly this for about two or three revisions after OS X 10.0 (commercial software, at that), and with hindsight everyone seems to think that Apple's approach is brilliant and there are no complaints. Go figure. All KDE did was admit up front that this is the way things are in the software world.
Apple was heavily criticized for this approach in 10.0 and the free 10.1 release. 10.2 reduced the criticism significantly but it was not until 10.3 that the very loud criticism died out, and for good reason. People do not much bother complaining about 10.0 now because it is past and memories in computer culture are short.
By the same token once the KDE team releases a decent version of KDE4 (and 4.1 is not it) then over a bit of time the furor over 4.0 will die down simply for the fact there is no point in continuing to complain.
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Unfortunately, he's completely wrong and has probably been getting screwed over with every .0 release of software he's ever bought into. Beta testing of new versions is always done on early adopters (an unwritten and accepted rule), even when you live in a world where money is handed over and you expect to get a finished piece of software with all the features promised. In the open source world, it's the only way things can work. People use a piece of open source software, and distros tend to ship it, when it's good enough and the vast majority use it on that basis, and that's the way the layered system tends to work.
For some reason, Apple did exactly this for about two or three revisions after OS X 10.0 (commercial software, at that), and with hindsight everyone seems to think that Apple's approach is brilliant and there are no complaints. Go figure. All KDE did was admit up front that this is the way things are in the software world.
Edited 2008-07-13 21:34 UTC