On 10/07/2016 04:48 AM, ianseeks wrote:
People should spend more time looking into it rather than just trashing it for vague reasons, nothing is perfect or bug free.
While the initial release of systemd was a lot more worked out, a lot more functional than the initial release of KDE4, the same principle holds. This is FOSS. This is not IBM or Microsoft[1] where they can pay many developers, testers or documenters and throw effort to get a completed, documented, tested product out to start with. We routinely accept that there are pre-bet, beta, pre-alpha and release candidate version of such things as the kernel level and other releases. We accepted the incomplete Linux before version 0.99. (Well, some of us did.) Its sad that KDE4 originally came out as what amounted to pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-beta, but none the less the same cycle of feedback from users testing to the developers applied. Oh, wait, not I come to think of it, Microsoft (and others) does in fact release early candidates to to users for test and feedback. The difference between Microsoft and the FOSS community, I think, is that the people to whom Microsoft releases those early evaluation/beta version to (a) have a more professional attitude and (b) are bound by signed agreements about what they can disclose and the responsibilities they commit to. This being FOSS there are not such signed agreements. A developer who releases software, no matter how tested & documented, leaves himself/herself open to to public. We've seen how that includes death threats and threats of rape and dismemberment in various such 'open' communities. See pint 'a' above. [1] Well perhaps not so. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org