KDE4 == Netscape 6.0

KDE4 == Netscape 6.0

Netscape 6.0 was quite poor browser: slow, buggy, memory-hungry, etc. Yet it was "new release" from major brand and it handled CSS good enough to actually write dynamic HTML pages. Thus it prompted creation of a lot of HTML/CSS books where MS IE was not the only way to create DHTML pages described. Later it led to success of Firefox we currently seeing. All this was only possible because it was "a release".

KDE 4.0 is the same: buggy, slow, yet released version of KDE 4.x. ISVs can now target it (along with GNOME 2.x). It'll be important later.

I think most saw the NS 6.0 release as a catastrophe, the good part was Firefox, but that, I
think, was mostly prompted by a "Ok, we officially SUCK, let's get this out to someone
else"-attitude afterwards...