* Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org> [12-04-08 07:29]:
On Thursday, 2008-12-04 at 13:13 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 12/4/2008 at 1:02 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote: It is not: keep using kde3, then. No, you tell them to switch to icewm.
Why is no-one using kde2 or kde1 ?
Keep KDE3, don't use the new features, don't upgrade to newer OSS Versions. If you agree to have one part kept in an old, unsupported state, why should you care for the rest?
Security updates, software compatibility.
You forget the part about "Linux supports old hardware, you do not need to keep buying new hardware every three years, as the windows users have to do". What you are proposing is the Microsoft way of business, for Linux. Good for hardware companies (and for companies selling new version of existing software), bad for users.
Forcing users to buy new hardware is not the way for Linux.
but they are not "forced", unless they wish the new features, security, pretty graphics/desktop. My system was fine for processing photographs, which was one of the criteria when I built it. Now I have a camera which outputs 12mp files and processing them is somewhat of a drag. A price for the increased resolution and features of my digital camera :^(.
This is not Microsoft.
Definitely and I would never want it to be. I *only* see m$ when I service someone else's boxen :^). (and I am loosing that battle). -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org