Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1325 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <4A01220F.8090900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >      Not to mention the black eye it left Linux in general. For years Linux 
> > has
> > claimed that it is ready as a desktop and a viable alternative to M$. KDE4
> > poked one hell-of-a finger in the eye of the community being released in the
> > condition and alpha state that it was. It's still just beta software --
> > period.
>
> Don't stick that on the KDE team.  The release announcements were clear: KDE 
> 4.0 was a developer-only release and KDE 4.1 was an early-adopter release.  
> For those out there that have forgotten how to speak non-techie that's 
> "alpha" 
> and "beta", respectively.

You are 100% Correct Boyd,

        But don't you recall all the *DENIALS* by a number of openSuSE folks 
that KDE
4.0.1 was *alpha* at the time 11.0 was release. I can't tell you the number of
"No it's not"s that were posted by the Novell and openSuSE folks after 11.0.

        It wasn't until I and others copy-and-pasted the *Alpha* release notes 
to the
list that the 'no it not's silently retreated. Check the archive, it is full of
those discussions.

        And, no I don't lay that on the KDE team. I lay that squarely at the 
feet of
the corporation that, despite saying it would never occur, has relegated
openSuSE to betaware for SLES and SLED.

        That is the unfortunate side to the economic reality of Novell's 
acquisition
of SuSE, like it or not. It has its benefits for openSuSE and it has its
detriments to openSuSE at the same time. Novell didn't buy SuSE to continue
SuSE commitment to making the OSS distribution the best in the world. Novell
bought SuSE to profit with the sale and support of SLES and SLED, and for the
good (from a funding standpoint) and for the bad (from the change to a testbed
standpoint) continued openSuSE as the OSS offering.

        Pretty damn smart business as well when you stop and think about it ... 
to
acquire over a 1,000,000 free testers in the process ;-)


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