From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKCNy-0005dA-Px for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:35:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C3D31C00A; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F0A1C00A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so297920gyh.40 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 09:34:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=buCjj3S/Smh4QtHBkYxm614ff2xVbS2274975jyW1z0=; b=uYlyHXsrUQyMts6xEtyTwfoRWTLfr/97K1pV8zxvqusm2rzs/6tLmEQLN0Q9MhTWbu iAEMGhKrb9DiLPU3YKZOXq56hw2f0Y/cQyaJihU+DYMThVUY6hNDl4xUCr5Ny5NUiOj5 iCCZkZblFrFcxwJm6RBvSxF+xqEOoKvjaSaPk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=Q9nJSwFC2TGpryEjiLWehNmst2tSw9q6bHK9rAIQ0Sbfd+xgERoqg7WCUwKDk+JBx2 iOrXAqUlOTKG6I3jQBgIVkYWPT9YegpGfp0eUwTeZKK+jzlvm6epnIcWki2XTpyHsTiZ dOFuiw9b18Au8VQOUe1Z/ldzzcO5IpwIZ0B7E= Received: by 10.91.153.20 with SMTP id f20mr4968857ago.143.1305131647513; Wed, 11 May 2011 09:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaurahari (adsl-72-152-84-26.asm.bellsouth.net [72.152.84.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c35sm140273anp.7.2011.05.11.09.34.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 May 2011 09:34:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:34:01 -0400 From: Indi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? Message-ID: <20110511163401.GA7563@gaurahari> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5faad601754d1f99d5e2f9f2672e7c4c On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:06 on Wednesday 11 May 2011, Indi di= d opine=20 > thusly: >=20 > > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that > > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. >=20 > Why did the devs switch? Market pressures really. If you don't spot eme= rging=20 > trends and follow them early, you run the risk of becoming redundant ve= ry=20 > quickly. Ask Microsoft, they know all about this. >=20 > They went from the undisputed behemoth market leader to staring the ver= y real=20 > threat of total obsolescence in three very short years. >=20 > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. >=20 So the answer is "prophylactic self-destruction"?=20 ***ducks*** I kid, forgive me... :) --=20 caveat utilitor=20 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB =E2=9D=A4 =E2=99=AB=20