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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:06 on Wednesday 11 May 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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> > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that |
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> > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. |
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> Why did the devs switch? Market pressures really. If you don't spot emerging |
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> trends and follow them early, you run the risk of becoming redundant very |
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> quickly. Ask Microsoft, they know all about this. |
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> They went from the undisputed behemoth market leader to staring the very real |
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> threat of total obsolescence in three very short years. |
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> KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. |
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So the answer is "prophylactic self-destruction"? |
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***ducks*** |
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I kid, forgive me... :) |
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