Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Jesse Keating]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 19:17 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > 
> >> For all those who're claiming users don't want upgrades like KDE 4.4.0:
> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-February/367266.html
> >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2010-March/006102.html
> >>
> > 
> > Now, lets see you take the leap in logic from those two emails, to the
> > majority of your users without any further research.
> 
> 1. Why shouldn't the burden of proof be on the side which wants to change 
> the status quo?
> 2. These users are our niche, the others are better served by other 
> distributions. Numbers shouldn't matter. I think blindly charging for 
> popularity is going to kill us. The vast majority of computer users uses 
> Window$ anyway. :-(
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

What makes your status quo more or less correct that other's status quo?
Not every maintainer pushes the way you think they do.  There /is/ no
status quo out side of "chaos".

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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