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 1QKCTe-0005xg-Tn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:41:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BC991C026; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm3-vm1.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (nm3-vm1.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com [98.139.90.231]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 028711C026 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:39:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.91.64] by nm3.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:39:00 -0000 Received: from [98.139.91.11] by tm4.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:39:00 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1011.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:39:00 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 8346.74550.bm@omp1011.mail.sp2.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 83063 invoked by uid 60001); 11 May 2011 16:38:59 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1305131939; bh=/CsZ5Nj88T1FC4o2pfLKr5Rx+Ztb/ySLCpUV8ai7sp8=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=yD/HC2JEGENtN9aRRrBWZ+7dRTRL2esPablNFlTbalS8T2Y7w96SOlLS7vtHQ2kxoKTck4fBDtGLRLCHka35FiIG7kWM8vgYGZIA/gHa1rilRZ/vRDdb8K46Ado+pQZ0AurkgHzaYQCWJ7VzBj2yWtIbmJlfJVM90Spj/kcmzWo= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=G7+VpyiVY+ahS2jVqRCZkvl53ZvhlxIRdSukvXoeZVQBwayFVxwNWi7Ppq05C9BEW9kBFNhY3kjGurU+LcauK8cp36HdYldvlPFR14NsNvztOPBC8chnEPtjqINJvP6QDOeqUUV0cBKxKFQEVtt2Kr8SJdRt3HvFXJrBK/jeFT0=; Message-ID: <77684.68014.qm@web39321.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 3Vx3HKMVM1mr7JGhIQvO4DupWSdYQyYIfwYGKL4JP.rtnOO h1Jhd5sLw2aCxfa1G9GciUEueCxhsV8n7E4bxovqS575QOAf0RI8aHtmeknz r7ZZCUBcEdbbLXEydK77ELlvzAgqDjNPGP3cjNZKy21oMN5njuR2oy57iOrA kkrjOHRTpFMFeCzCpQbOHww_BIV0bjBuSE7DsDF68n2TwaPfmKP_wCC4sGeE NTDmEXFdzow8iTZX9gvNkD7KWb0jc2ncgz.OPH12GIud9.AqKEJOCGyzf9bQ NkpRQQ9neuox5EHmGExAtKLVbdcZzQ_JBNvLkT2hmkylO5D3n7ug_7.3H0pw Xy07b5KhDFlK0GiSQn08.P.L5aDUXZEm1jtSjtS_Vxcb0y2oVJPH1sO2g9ig HJ_QrRhu4yuR6 Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web39321.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2011 09:38:58 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/567 YahooMailWebService/0.8.111.303096 References: <20110511150602.GA2423@gaurahari> <201105111745.07919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201105111745.07919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 03bae3b8c6204e2844bac4a4a38e43ef ----- Original Message ---- > From: Alan McKinnon > > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that > > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. > > KDE3 and KDE4 are not the same thing. > KDE4 is not the next version of KDE3. > > You must consider KDE4 to be a completely new product, unrelated to KDE3 in > any meaningful way except that many KDE4 devs used to work on a different > project called KDE3. > > Like all software, KDE4 is not for everyone - like you for example. But > there's nothing stopping you from maintaining KDE3 yourself. > > Why did the devs switch? Market pressures really. If you don't spot emerging > trends and follow them early, you run the risk of becoming redundant very > quickly. Ask Microsoft, they know all about this. > > They went from the undisputed behemoth market leader to staring the very real > threat of total obsolescence in three very short years. > > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. > Very much agreed. Ever wonder why what Apple and Microsoft are doing seems to simply be copying what KDE did with KDE4? Yeah - KDE is on the forefront of the desktop right now, paving the path for how its going to be used by essentially everyone as a result. Ben