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Mosfet Contributes Code To KDE (Again)

Posted by timothy on from the good-news-for-a-new-year dept.

davidsmind writes "Former KDE hacker and creator of the much acclaimed Liquid theme, Mosfet(AKA Daniel M. Duley ) is back in the spotlight. The Dot was the first one with the story. 'Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers. Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better: Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt for PixiePlus to KDE3." Waldo Bastian promptly added them to CVS.'" The list of effects is long, impressive, and under a BSD-style license. Mosfet has done a lot of the work that makes my desktop pretty, so I'm very happy to hear about this.

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  1. Didn't you hear? by robkore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did someone mention BSD? This story is bound to have about 30 or so "BSD is dying" posts from Linux users who recently converted from Windows only 10 days ago.

    '*BSD is dying' posts are dying

    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD-is-dying community when last month slashdot confirmed that *BSD-is-dying posts account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posts. Coming on the heels of the latest slashdot survey which plainly states that *BSD-is-dying posts have lost more market share to option E, Cowboyneal, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD-is-dying posts are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive trolling test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD-is-dying's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD-is-dying posts face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD-is-dying posts because *BSD-is-dying is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD-is-dying posts. As many of us are already aware, *BSD-is-dying posters continue to lose karma. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD-is-dying is the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    BSD-is-dying leader Anonymous Coward states that there are 70 readers of BSD-is-dying posts.

    All major surveys show that *BSD-is-dying posts have steadily declined on slashdot. *BSD-is-dying is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD-is-dying is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist trolls. *BSD-is-dying continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD-is-dying is dead.

    *BSD is dying is dying

    who wanted karma anyway...