Interview With Andreas Pour of KDE

friedmud writes "I just read a great interview over at OPEN for Business. It is with KDE contributor Andreas Pour. He goes over many topics - not only including KDE. My favorite part: 'they are basically saying, if you stop obeying us, we will stop you from viewing the documents you and your friends created. Who are they to say where and when I read my documents? Now I need a monopolist's permission to view my own creations? The audacity is mind-boggling, and that the Justice Department is permitting it is simply astounding.' - Wow"

Comments

avoiding the subject?

[WildBeast]

Well instead of discussing the usability problems of KDE and the huge installation issues, he prefer to just go ahead and blame Microsoft. One reason I stick with GNOME is that it's easy to upgrade, I was never able to upgrade my KDE though. They have only themselves to blame for there lack of success.

Re:avoiding the subject?

[WildBeast]

That's exactly the problem. I need to download and install a new distro everytime a new version of KDE comes up because I'm unable to upgrade because of missing libraries, missing icons, plenty of problems. With Ximian GNOME on the other hand, I use the web install and with a few clicks I'm all ready to go.

Never liked it...

[Dunkalis]

I've never liked KDE...Always thought it felt too unprofessional. I prefer GNOME over KDE, but I haven't tried KDE 3 yet. GNOME 2 is sleek and friendly. Ease of installation doesn't come in to account because of Debian's package management, so at least installation doesn't leave a sour taste in my mouth...Time to go try KDE 3.

There is no community if only certain members are

[Kunta Kinte]

... allowed to be heard.

Just after I read your post mozilla crashed on me again, so I am going to respond.

I submitted one of those WONTFIX bugs, and I stand by my suggestion still today. I recommended that an unstripped nightly or a linux talkback nightly build be distributed ( either one ), just as talkback nightlies for windows are distributed. The sad thing is the suggestion is simple. They would have to *not* strip a binary before inclusion on the mozilla ftp server. This would require no code changes and only a minor build change.

I'm not just bitching about not being able to run nightlies under a debugger without building from scratch. I'm complaining about not being able to provide any reasonable information to the developers for those random crashes. And thus having to live with those crashes.

I'm complaining about being shut out of this "mozilla community" I keep hearing about.

Mozilla and other large OSS projects are turning their backs on one of the most important advantages of OSS, user feedback. As more and more of the decisions go corporate and behind closed doors, these projects will appeal less and less to many users.