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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. Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  2. Mosfet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mosfet eats the cock! Liquid sucks balls.

  3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am amazed by how I absolutely couldn't give one tiny little fuck about this.

    GNOME is for cocksmokers.

    Get with the program. Kde roxors haxors.

  4. Wow. How original... by wazzzup · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...another piece of open-source software that poorly mimics an established commercial variant. It has become apparent that where open source is concerned, the ratio of cheap-knockoff to innovative software is highly lopsided.

    Go ahead and mod me down as a troll but you know it's true.

  5. KDE is Kluttered by dezzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gnome's purity is much better from an engineers POV. Should come up with beautiful schemes like "Liquid" for Gnome. I just wish Gnome/KDE hackers would learn from BeOS & OSX and cease trying to imitate Windows.

  6. Major News worthy of Slashdot by casiel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Developer plagiarizes Aqua really, really badly. Film at 11.

    Oh, wait, the story this time is: Developer contributes code to KDE. My mistake, obviously that's something that really warranted a story.

    Jeez.

  7. Liquid? Aqua? by Refrag · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, this guy basically makes a theme that makes KDE look like Apple's Aqua and you guys are making him out to be some kind of a hero?

    Did you do the same for the guy that ripped off Windows' look?

    --
    I have a website. It's about Macs.