On Mon,25.May.09, 16:20:44, marc wrote: > I read a defensive post on the Kubuntu list - there is a *lot* of > defensiveness around kde4 at the moment - that claims that kde4 is a > rewrite and so users should adjust their expectations accordingly. > > It reminded me of Joel Spolsky's article, 'Things You Should Never Do': > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > > "They make the single worst strategic mistake that any software company > can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch." > > "if [they] actually had some adult supervision with software industry > experience, they might not have shot themselves in the foot so badly." Looks like an interesting article, but I didn't see any mention of FLOSS other than using emacs to write it, all examples are based on proprietary software. > The whole kde4 fiasco has radically altered my view of FOSS. I now know, > with very few exceptions, that the leaders of FOSS projects are very, > very inexperienced at real world software delivery. You are assuming a market. FOSS works more like a jungle: survival of the fittest. Maybe some users will migrate away from KDE, maybe some will join. Only time will tell. > Heaven help us when Linus moves on. I bet there are folk lining up to > rewrite the kernel right now. And there will be a huge queue of folk > right behind them shrieking, "New! Shiny!". How much code does 2.6 have in common with 2.4? > I think I'll buy a Mac. Of course, they just "rewrote" the entire OS ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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