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22 Jan 09
Martin Virtualgreat post byaaron seigo (kde developer) about kde4 and the spirit of open source
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07 Apr 08
Djiezes KraaijstKDE is not a business: we are not selling a product to the mass market. We are a development team creating the resource which can be sold to the mass market. This is an important distinction since we go through an R&D process that is very open, something that a business would have a hard time doing.
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KDE is not a business: we are not selling a product to the mass market. We are a development team creating the resource which can be sold to the mass market. This is an important distinction since we go through an R&D process that is very open, something that a business would have a hard time doing.
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In the open source method you release early, you release often. By doing so, a progression is presented that people can follow
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with open source it is exactly what one must do to get the production wheels turning.
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KDE 4.0.0 is our "will eat your children" release of KDE4,
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KDE 4.0 isn't yet "better than good enough"; so why don't we just release more betas? When one perpetually releases alphas/betas a few things happen: people don't test it aggressively enough, third party developers don't get involved, core developers continue doing blue sky development rather than focusing on release qualities.
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listening to the short term consumeristic demand of the populace has been a major component of the march towards much of the stagnation and crappy products and services we get to deal with today. Ignoring the short term is foolish, but not investing in the mid-term is equally so.
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03 Feb 08
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29 Jan 08
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08 Jan 08
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05 Jan 08
brian rodneyBy asking KDE to behave like a proprietary company [they] are asking KDE to abandon what has worked for us all these years... to cease doing what resulted in the Free software desktop going from non-existent in the mid-90s to parity in just over 10 years.
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