KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 12, 2008 19:59 UTC (Sat) by Sutoka (guest, #43890)
Parent article: KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

What seems weird to me is that people are so extremely militant about this. The entire release
early, release often philosophy seems to have been completely forgotten (and erased from
many's minds).

Since when has the FLOSS community been so COMPLETELY obsessed with marketing? It used to be
all about the code and the actual software, but now not so much it seems. Could the KDE
community have communicated better? Sure, but people also could have bothered to read more
than just the title of a single blog post before going nuclear. If you're going to blame the
KDE people then you also have to blame the people that were spreading misinformation, either
purposefully or through sheer laziness (i.e. getting entrenched in a position simply from a
TITLE that was a joke).

Then again, in probably a year or so everyone will have forgotten this and there will be some
other project that'll be all the rage to rag on because of some temporary issue. It's happened
before, and it'll happen again, and people will act as if that was the first time it's ever
happened. Guess thats just how the world works now.

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KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 12, 2008 20:18 UTC (Sat) by mgb (guest, #3226) [Link]

> people also could have bothered to read more than just the
> title of a single blog post before going nuclear

How about the entire KDE 4.0 release announcement?

http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/

KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 12, 2008 23:16 UTC (Sat) by Sutoka (guest, #43890) [Link]

And the rest of that sentence along with the preceding one acknowledged there were mistakes,
that press release (something the FLOSS community has little experience with) was
unfortunately too marketingy. Many of the reviews and articles about the KDE 4.0 release got
it right that 4.0 was more so about the libraries than about the applications. This seems to
be one of the things GNOME/GTK has learned and are planning to try to avoid with GNOME/GTK 3.

The section of my post that you quoted was more so referring to the latest chapter in this
silly saga where so much animosity was generated from the *title* of a blog post (which was a
joke, quite obviously if the post itself was read).

Maybe it's just that so many people believe myth #1, but I certainly don't understand all this
angst and paranoia.

KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 12, 2008 22:25 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

> Guess thats just how the world works now.

Forget it, Jake.  It's the internet.

KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 17, 2008 5:46 UTC (Thu) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]

> Forget it, Jake.  It's the internet.

A movie buff, eh?