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[Philipp Thomas <pth@xxxxxxx>]

* Ilya Chernykh (neptunia@xxxxxxx) [20100824 00:49]:

> > Much less ambitioned projects (naming just YaST as example) have
> > failed before, why should this succeed?
>
> Can you please clarify, what do you mean?

I was refering to the original version of YaST aka YaST1 which was a text
mode only application. When SuSE replaced it by YaST2, there was a loud
outcry from those that prefered YaST1. So some people took the YaST1 sources
and startet a sourceforge project to keep YaST1 alive. And guess what? The
project never got farther than its creation.

That's what I expect to happen to this KD3 fork.

Granted, there are counter examples like gcc, where the majority of
developers disliked the way gcc was maintained (what ESR called the
cathedral model) so they forked gcc and created egcs using the basar
development model. After a few years the FSF accepted that egcs would be the
official gcc. But this succeeded only because the majority of developers
followed the fork. And for KDE3 this isn't the case.

Philipp
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