Ooops, we made Linus leave : (choices and punishment)

[Kevin Kofler]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> --- from article
> I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE
> 4.0. ---
> 
> --- from blog text
> it's really hard to stay positive about the efforts of downstreams
> when they wander around feeling they should be above reproach while
> simultaneously hurting our (theirs and ours) users in a rush to be
> more bad ass bleeding edge than any other cool dude distro in town
> ---
> 
> --- from comments
> Fedora messed the update from 3.5 to 4.0 and Linus had to use Gnome .. big
> deal! ---
> 
> --- from comments
> I agree with Aaron that Fedora acted irresponsibly by forcing the
> switch to 4.0, and those kinds of decisions certainly hurt both Fedora
> and KDE.
> ---
> 
> --- from comments
> I don't think you can blame Linus for not wanting to use KDE 4.0 and
> not having a choice to use KDE 3.x in Fedora when other distros like
> Suse had managed this feat without any problems. Fedora is junk for
> KDE
> ---

>From a comment by nononononononononono (which makes a lot of sense):
> Wow. Please tell me you're not trying to pass off blame onto distributions
> for using your final release software. It would have been easy to avoid
> the frustration of distros being in "a rush to be more bad ass bleeding
> edge than any other cool dude distro in town." You simply could have
> informed distributions and users that KDE4 was not ready for everyday use
> until KDE4.2. You could have put it in big bold letters on the KDE
> website. You could have even written it on the default desktop background.
> Distributions may still have used it, but then at least you could
> reasonably claim some plausible deniability. To try and place blame on
> distributions at this point for your mishandled release strategy is silly.

I also wrote a reply of my own:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/choices-and-punishment.html?showComment=1232892660000#c7557625620183319039

        Kevin Kofler