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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:05 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop |
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>>>> the ball here, KDE did. |
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>>> It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't |
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>>> matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer developers want to |
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>>> work on the new stuff, that is their choice, and an unsurprising one. |
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>> Yep, it is their ball. It doesn't mean that I or anyone else has to |
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>> like it tho. |
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> No, but it doesn't mean you should keep complaining about it. It's their |
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> project and their choice. If you don't like it, ask for your money back. |
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Actually, I only told the OP, many many replies ago, that it was not |
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Gentoo's fault that KDE was dropped. Then for some crazy reason it |
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became my fault. It's not my fault at all. Any one who thinks so is |
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wrong. I had NO part in the decision to drop KDE 3 support by KDE. |
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>>>> If KDE didn't drop the ball then why is Redhat |
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>>>> having to step up and do the job on the KDE developers? |
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>>> They aren't, they are doing the job they were paid to do by their |
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>>> customers. If you want continued, guaranteed support for KDE3, you |
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>>> have two choices: do it yourself or buy a copy of RHEL with a support |
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>>> contract. |
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>> Then that would be the decision Redhat made after KDE dropped the |
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>> ball? |
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> No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X year |
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> support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to their |
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> customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid, who do you |
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> think pays the other 38%. |
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So they did make the decision to continue support for KDE 3. OK. So |
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what? I wish them the best of luck. KDE still stopped the support. |
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Anything else you say will not change that fact. Again, Redhat is only |
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picking it up because KDE isn't doing it. That's what you just said. |
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If KDE was still supporting and developing KDE 3 then Redhat wouldn't |
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have to do what KDE used to do. |
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>> Again, someone picking up after KDE and doing what they could |
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>> have done. I wonder if Redhat likes having to do that? Wouldn't they |
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>> like their PAID people to be doing something else besides picking up |
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>> after KDE? |
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> They want their paid people to do their job of supporting their |
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> customers. KDE are also supporting their customers, which do not include |
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> you (or me). |
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It sure doesn't. I don't use Redhat. Honestly, I don't care what Redhat |
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decides to support or not to support. It doesn't seem to affect me or |
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Gentoo one little bit. |
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>> By the way, I dropped hal. Maybe KDE will be next? |
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> Fine, that's your choice, just as it was KDE's choice to maximise the |
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> resources devoted to development of KDE4 by not diverting devs' time to |
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> KDE3. Maybe that's why KDE 4.4 is so much nicer to use than 4.3? |
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Glad to hear they are working on KDE 4.4. Maybe it will work good |
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enough for me to use one day soon. It looks promising to me. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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