Slashdot Mirror
Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE
Vicegrip writes "In an article on leaked release notes on Redhat 8.0 CNet also revealed that Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, known here on Slashdot as berorh, has quit over objections he has on what Redhat is doing to KDE in the new release. Bero says that the new version of KDE in Redhat 8.0 is going to be crippleware.
I know I always found Bero's comments here on Slashdot helpful and insightful. His worries about what Redhat is doing to KDE for 8.0 have me rather concerned and thinking of switching distributions."
I wish I was stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hwealthy enough that I could quit my job just on principle.
to Zero, to reflect his new income level.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
I win! I win!
Developers developers developers developers developers!
send my resume to for the newly open posistion? ;)
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
As an out of work programer, I can tell you first hand that this is not the enviorment to quit in if there is any other choice. Mind you his reasons for leaving are good, but it is aweful hard to get a job today. Maybe he has name recignition to get one, but there are a lot of good programers (and many bad ones too I suppose) who are looking for work.
Good luck is all I can say. If you find a job, please think of the rest of us without work, and see if you can do something for us. (hint, get me a job. :)
is there a slashdot id berounemployed?
To be more specific, his position is that you can't restrict what people do with the software, even if you wanted to. It's more of a legal position than anything else.
I've been looking at projects under an extended GPL called the GGPL, which pulls together GPL, the UN charter on human rights, and a set of sustainable development principles. My first reaction to the language about not using products under this license in war of any kind was similar. Just how would you stop them, legally, or practically.
You probably can't, but that doesn't mean you can't disapprove, and say so. Most of the effect is social anyway, and making a stand can be pretty effective in this domain. Legitimate millitary people would stay away, and the others probably wouldn't know about it anyway, or be bound by it in any case.
So I say, tollerate and disaprove, which is more or less what is happening in this case. It is RedHat's right to do it, and it is his right to disapprove of what they have done. I'm sure he knows he has no legal standing to object.
It wouldn't be a Red Hat *.0 release without huge annoying showstopper bugs.
The only way a lot of the KDE guys would be happy is if RH excised GNOME, ditched every gtk+ app, fired everyone who worked on GNOME, and ran a Stalinesque show trial where everyone publicly humiliated themselves for having ever dared to do anything other than pour money into KDE.