The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

> Aaron Seigo has taken his blog http://aseigo.blogspot.com/ offline in the
> past month, something I followed quite closely and enjoyed for the
> preview of incoming features. I've been trying to find out his reason for
> doing this without any luck, but I would not be surprised if the
> "hand waving" wore him down/out.

Yes, he got tired of being constantly and viciously criticized for things that were spread
between:

*) simply not true (i.e. mean old Aaron doesn't like desktop icons)
*) used to be true but has been fixed (many things in Plasma :)
*) personal attacks everywhere he goes, etc. etc.

The unfortunate thing is that he does value the constructive criticism that he has (and
continues to) receive.  But many people started blaming Aaron personally for any little thing
that they didn't like in KDE 4 and turned into assholes. (see also http://www.xkcd.com/438/)
And that caused all the constructive feedback to get lost in the noise.

So he has gone back to being productive even though that means having to tune out a lot of
different channels of interaction he used to be available on.  Fear not though, Plasma
continues to march on and improve.