Free is too expensive (Economist) [LWN.net]

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 2, 2012 15:30 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by boudewijn
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

>> "We must remember that, from what we can see, the KDE project's primary mission in life is providing entertainment for KDE developers, not convenience or stability for KDE users."
>
> Can you just stop gratuitously insulting us? It's extremely tiresome.

That his point of view which is not said in an insulting way, you disagree so you feel insulted, but FWIW I agree with his view: if the KDE project's goal was primarily the convenience and stability for KDE users, then things would have been handled very differently, for example not activating by default unstable technology, not making "big bang" release such as KDE4.0, etc.
But as it makes things less fun for developers, I think that only small projects can work this way, IMHO KDE is way too big to be developed like this.

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