On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:06, David Walser wrote: > > Uh, in what way is submitting a new package with the > > change in the log, > > and elaborating on the change when asked about it, > > doing anything > > "behind our backs"? > > Well, given it's one of the huge things that RH got > criticized for with 8.0, it was obviously going to be > a controversial thing, and it probably should have > been discussed before the fact, rather than, it's > done, haha now you suckas have to live with it!
No, this isn't the case at all. The serious criticism of Red Hat is for the extensive hacking they did in KDE for the more radical aspects of their "compatibility" - making it use Pango and things like that. These are radical internal changes which some people contend introduce bugs that will be blamed on the KDE project. I don't think anyone had a major problem with Red Hat simply tweaking the default settings of each desktop environment - that's the prerogative of a distributor of free software, after all. -- adamw
