Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius) [LWN.net]

Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)

Posted Apr 4, 2008 16:15 UTC (Fri) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius) by ajross
Parent article: Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)

Those smart ppl disagreeing are mostly managers who don't know sh*t.

And the overwhelming precedent you are talking about - I'm pretty sure a lot more software has
been written with Qt, both free and non-free, compared to GTK. What serious business would
want to develop with something which is supported by just a handful of random ppl? Qt has a
company with over 200 ppl (these days, add Nokia to that number) behind it. Way more solid.
Besides, it is better documented, you get commercial support - sorry, but I'm confident
companies using GTK rather than Qt are an exception.

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Interview: Aaron Seigo, KDE Project Lead (Sirius)

Posted Apr 4, 2008 17:33 UTC (Fri) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

That's just flaming. I mean, have you actually installed and used a recent version of Ubuntu,
Fedora, Solaris or OpenSuSE?  Are Red Hat, Novell, Sun and Canonical "just a handful of random
ppl [sic]" to you?  I mean, just stop. This isn't helping, and it make you look dumb.

There's an overwhelming collection of software available for both desktops, and neither is
going away.  The insistence of KDE people to engage in this kind of "Gn0me is teh sux0rz!"
flamage (either explicitly, as you and wstephenson did above, or implicitly in Aaron's
interview) just drives me nuts.  It's not helping anyone, least of all KDE.  Please grow up,
and learn to live with the rest of the community.  You don't have to use Gnome if you don't
want to, but after ten (TEN!) years isn't it about time you learned to live with it?