On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop > >> the ball here, KDE did. > >> > > > > It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't > > matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer developers want to > > work on the new stuff, that is their choice, and an unsurprising one. > > > > Yep, it is their ball. It doesn't mean that I or anyone else has to > like it tho.
No, but it doesn't mean you should keep complaining about it. It's their project and their choice. If you don't like it, ask for your money back. > >> If KDE didn't drop the ball then why is Redhat > >> having to step up and do the job on the KDE developers? > >> > > > > They aren't, they are doing the job they were paid to do by their > > customers. If you want continued, guaranteed support for KDE3, you > > have two choices: do it yourself or buy a copy of RHEL with a support > > contract. > Then that would be the decision Redhat made after KDE dropped the > ball? No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid, who do you think pays the other 38%. > Again, someone picking up after KDE and doing what they could > have done. I wonder if Redhat likes having to do that? Wouldn't they > like their PAID people to be doing something else besides picking up > after KDE? They want their paid people to do their job of supporting their customers. KDE are also supporting their customers, which do not include you (or me). > By the way, I dropped hal. Maybe KDE will be next? Fine, that's your choice, just as it was KDE's choice to maximise the resources devoted to development of KDE4 by not diverting devs' time to KDE3. Maybe that's why KDE 4.4 is so much nicer to use than 4.3? -- Neil Bothwick Why doesn't onomatopoeia sound like what it means?
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