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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:30:30
Message-Id: C2685D2A-F047-46E5-95A4-AFFFA13C01B4@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked by Dale
1 On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:06, Dale wrote:
2 > ...
3 > But KDE still dropped the support tho? That was my point. It
4 > wasn't Redhat, Gentoo, SuSe or some other distro or even me that
5 > dropped it, it was KDE that dropped it.
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7 62% of KDE's developers are unpaid volunteers. [1]
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9 "We program for the sheer joy and fun that comes out of putting out
10 such an awesome product. This has nothing to do with market share,
11 mind share, corporate attention, or any other outside influence." [2]
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13 Stroller.
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18 [1] https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/differences-between-paid-and-volunteer-foss-contributors
19 [2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/gfresponse.php

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