Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2740 mails)

[Tero Pesonen <mlist-suse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Ken Schneider wrote:
> auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 December 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 December 2008 09:49:39 Rajko M. wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 07 December 2008 02:12:13 am Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > > So once I can no longer use 3.x.x
> > > >
> > > > Why not?
> > >
> > > Because it will eventually be dropped from all repositories and
> > > new hardware might necessitate a more up to date distro.
> > >
> > > I have high hopes that someone might start a fork from the main
> > > KDE stream and continue to support KDE 3.x.x.  Sadly I myself have
> > > not got the skills needed. :-(
> >
> > Have you ever used KDE 4.1.3? Haven't you noticed that no one wants
> > to maintain KDE 3 or fork it?
> >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Peter
>
> Have the devs forgotten the _visually impaired_ and are now telling
> them to look elsewhere?

This is generally true for free / opensource software. This is an area 
where I have always given credit to Microsoft. Of course, MS sells to 
schools, organisations, etc. where the software must conform to certain 
standards on usability etc. and hence they pretty much have to make 
their software work for the disabled. This is not something the KDE 
developers need to bother with. They're not selling anything, after 
all.

Regards,
Tero Pesonen
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