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Apparently, though unproven, at 14:54 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Dale did opine |
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thusly: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > The pattern I see is that of selecting only changes that failed and |
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> > implying they are the norm. |
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> > Why not add other improvements that were so bad, like the switch from |
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> > floppy disks to hard disks, or CDs to DVDs? Companies try to predict |
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> > where the market should go so they can lead. No one gets it right all |
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> > the time, the ones that survive are those that get it right often enough. |
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> > The ones that are most likely to fail are those that never try to |
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> > innovate in case someone doesn't like it. |
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> > |
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> > The important point is that KDE wanted something better, it's unfortunate |
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> > that it took so much longer than planned, but it would have taken even |
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> > longer if they had not tried. |
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> I just hope they also learned from their mistakes. Dropping KDE3 |
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> support long before KDE4 was ready was a big one. That shouldn't be |
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> repeated. |
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They can do any damn thing they want to with their code. They also you owe |
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support for it in exactly the same amount you paid for it. Which is to say |
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"nothing". |
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It's not a question of "should", it's only a question of "Dale would prefer it |
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if" |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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