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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:Uh.. by Johnny+Mozzarella · · Score: 0, Troll

    So the two are mutually exclusive?
    Yes.

    We can only have software that is perfectly written or software that addresses the needs of the users?
    Perfect software never ships(except Hello World).

    Can't we figure out what the users need, and then deliver excellently written software to do that?
    Yes. [see Apple]

  2. KHTML is driving users away. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Well, frankly you're not exactly encouraging other industries and companies that were considering using the KHTML codebase in their own projects.

    Companies that might have wanted to use the KHML code will now be greatly hesitant because even though you laid down the rules how you want sharing to work and Apple complied by them EXACTLY, you bitch about Apple not going above and beyond where you want to. Not many other companies would want to risk their prestige by using your code, contributing back, and getting publically insulted by your team.

    If you have a problem with what Apple, then CHANGE THE FREAKIN' LICENSE, otherwise your whining is just sour grapes. Apple is doing exactly what you asked them to, and you can't expect them to bend over backwards whenever you want. And likewise you can't set down rules of the game and complain when somebody else is more successful than you while adhering to the rules. If you're really doing open source for quality software and to benefit the world, then you shouldn't care whatsoever how good Apple's code is. But it seems like you want to compete with them instead, and are whining that they've succeeded better than you have.

    But in any event go ahead and keep bitching about Apple and keep driving away other would-be collaborators that might have liked to use the KHTML codebase.