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On 2011-05-12 23:44, Dale wrote: |
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> Your questions don't disprove what me and others have posted. As I have |
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I think Alans point is that while the KDE developers (volunteers, or |
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paid for) have certain goals which may or may not be tangential to yours |
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(clearly, in the case of KDE3 vs KDE4 they are not). So unless you pay |
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someone to have your specific requirements satisfied you don't get to |
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complain. |
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The volunteers have an "itch to scratch", i.e. they want some certain |
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functionality which they care about and are, probably, not interested in |
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anything else. Paid for developers are (probably/most likely) being told |
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what to work on. And developer resources are, probably, scarce so... If |
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you (and others) wish KDE3 to be supported then you either need to: 1. |
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Support/maintain KDE3 yourselves. 2. Pay someone to support/maintain |
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KDE3. That's the way it works, which is also somewhat valid for |
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commercial software, but you usually don't get the option of paying the |
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producer to maintain your specific version unless you are a _big_ |
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customer (with lots of money), but with open source you at least have |
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the option of "scratching an itch" yourself or paying someone to do the |
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work for you (and even pool resources with people who share the same |
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interests). |
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> mistake. I point it out so that hopefully it won't be made again. |
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Of course, anyone can have an opinion! :-D |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |