Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:44:21 -0600, Dale wrote:
No it's not. One is a bald statement of fact, the other contains a
judgement by using negative terminology.
If they didn't drop the ball,
They didn't, they made a decision. You may not like that decision, but
that does not make it a mistake ("dropped the ball" has a clear
implication of a serious mistake). Look at how many people have
jumped to side with you in this complaint
Yea, they decided to drop the ball. WOW !! I don't NEED anyone on my
side to state that point. They did what they did and you can call it
anything you want. I call it dropping the ball and it is not going to
change. Can you tell that yet?
then why is Redhat having to pick up that
ball? If KDE hadn't dropped the ball, then Redhat wouldn't have to
pick up that same ball.
Red Hat are simply doing what they have already been paid to do. Do you
really think they have a serious problem with this? Of course not,
otherwise they would have made sure 3.5 development continued, they have
the clout.
I realize that M$ is a paid OS but doesn't KDE receive contributions
for themselves? Gentoo does? People donate to Gentoo. I don't think
Gentoo would make a decision like this.
The key word there is "donate". They are not entering into a contract to
supply a specific level of service, they are usually donating for what
they have already received. I know I didn't start donating to Gentoo
until I had been using it a while.
Well, very little has changed. Most importantly, KDE 3.5 still works
as well as it ever did. It was never gong to be developed any more
anyway. As far as Gentoo dropping it from portage is concerned, the
fix for that is editing one line of make.conf, which is hardly an
onerous task. The KDE 3.5 ebuilds are still maintained, they've just
moved to a different repository. This really is a non-issue.
And some of the KDE 3 stuff is having to be removed either for security
problems or they don't compile. I subscribe to -dev too. I see the
last rites for them.
Removed from where? From the portage tree maybe, but they have been moved
to an overlay so they are still available to Gentoo users.
But the packages in the overlay are not supported by KDE either. Again,
same thing. Nothing has changed !
Dale
:-) :-)
