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Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project

Posted by Zonk on from the he-said-she-said dept.

trent42 writes "Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger has had harsh words on his blog for the KDE project, in light of its public tiff with Apple over the KHTML rendering engine. Goodger says 'Safari's renderer is vastly superior to the KHTML used by Konqueror,' and that the KDE developers should follow Apple's lead and focus more on the needs of users, instead of insisting on software perfection."

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  1. Re:Blah... by mbbac · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's between developers for 3 open source projects: KHTML, WebCore, and Firefox.

    The KHTML guys are really shooting themselves in the foot with this. They certainly aren't encouraging companies to participate with open source projects. The only thing they're doing is reinforcing an existing conception about open source developers -- that they're a pain to work with.

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  2. Do have to admit though........ by KingBahamut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    KDE is rather bloated.

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  3. Re:KDE should be grateful. by telbij · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    However, they are angry at something: people like you. Coming here on /. and making a completely backwards post that misrepresents everything they stand for. Sit down and STFU.

    Why don't you put your name next to your ignorant bile. I am not the one misrepresenting anyone. I just READ THE GODDAMN ARTICLE AND RESPONDED TO THE CLAIMS IT MADE. If those are false, than maybe someone should mention that instead of anonymously flaming a random response.

  4. Konqueror superior to FireFox by Luke-Jr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Konqueror is much superior to FireFox... so who cares what FF devs complain to Konq devs about?

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