Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Stephan Binner <stbinner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 31 August 2008 16:30:37 Richard wrote:

> I, and my company WANT 4.x to succeed and more than that, we WANT LINUX and
> openSuSE to succeed, but that depends on attracting and keeping the Windoze
> lemmings.   They won't understand it when you tell them they can't do this
> and they can't do that on their computer under 'Linux' when they could
> always do it under Windoze....

That is an interesting new claim: can you please give functionality examples 
to which Windows users are used to that are not available with KDE 4.1?

> but as long as 4.x is still 'pre-release' or 'beta' quality with huge gaps 
> in functionality or stability remaining 

I dispute the existance of "huge gaps". :-)

> Offering the legacy version until 4.x matures is almost cost-free.

You are mistaken: it requires efforts both pre- (keep it building and working, 
branding, testing, translation, documentation, ...) as post-release (security
fixes for two years).

Bye,
   Steve
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