Arthur Pemberton wrote: > --- from article > I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE > 4.0. --- > > --- from blog text > it's really hard to stay positive about the efforts of downstreams > when they wander around feeling they should be above reproach while > simultaneously hurting our (theirs and ours) users in a rush to be > more bad ass bleeding edge than any other cool dude distro in town > --- > > --- from comments > Fedora messed the update from 3.5 to 4.0 and Linus had to use Gnome .. big > deal! --- > > --- from comments > I agree with Aaron that Fedora acted irresponsibly by forcing the > switch to 4.0, and those kinds of decisions certainly hurt both Fedora > and KDE. > --- > > --- from comments > I don't think you can blame Linus for not wanting to use KDE 4.0 and > not having a choice to use KDE 3.x in Fedora when other distros like > Suse had managed this feat without any problems. Fedora is junk for > KDE > --- >From a comment by nononononononononono (which makes a lot of sense): > Wow. Please tell me you're not trying to pass off blame onto distributions > for using your final release software. It would have been easy to avoid > the frustration of distros being in "a rush to be more bad ass bleeding > edge than any other cool dude distro in town." You simply could have > informed distributions and users that KDE4 was not ready for everyday use > until KDE4.2. You could have put it in big bold letters on the KDE > website. You could have even written it on the default desktop background. > Distributions may still have used it, but then at least you could > reasonably claim some plausible deniability. To try and place blame on > distributions at this point for your mishandled release strategy is silly. I also wrote a reply of my own: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/choices-and-punishment.html?showComment=1232892660000#c7557625620183319039 Kevin Kofler
