Larry Marshall wrote:
> There's been a lot of talk about why companies don't set release
> dates. Here's a msg from Mandrake's expert conference. It speaks
> volumes.
>
> ================from Mandrake expert list==================
> KDE 2.1 final in binary form for the various distributions was
> promised on the KDE site by Monday February 26.
>
> It is now 3.5 hours into Tuesday GMT and there is no sign of the KDE
> 2.1 final update to Mandrake 7.2.
>
> Where is it? What is happening? When and where will it appear?
> ================================ end msg ============================
It doesn't speak volumes to me. KDE is an Open Source project
run by volunteers. I don't pay for it, nor can I make any
demands as a customer. I can choose to help them if progress is
too slow for my taste, or I can choose to not use it. That's it.
Win4Lin is a commercial product. They make money off of it. I
_can_ expect some level of support if I feel I paid for it. One
can argue that we all purchased a product based on kernel 2.2 and
have no right to expect it to work on 2.4. That's true enough.
But unlike KDE, we aren't expected to help them along if progess
is too slow for our taste, and it will hurt their bottom line if
we choose to not use Win4Lin any longer.
As for my myself, I'm in no huge hurry to use 2.4, but I
understand users who do _need_ it. It is the Linux stable kernel
after all.
--
Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546
6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
_______________________________________________
Win4Lin-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
