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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 09:49, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:
application and develops for the satisfaction in realising this. This 'itch- scratchability' is effectively the wages that pays for the majority of the code in your openSUSE repositories, and if you take that away, progress stops.
This is a very important bit that those who wail and moan about "losing" KDE3 seem to forget. We (the users of KDE3 and now KDE4) are not paying the salaries of those developing this DE. We are benefiting - for free - from the various developer's efforts.... from their proverbial itch scratching... development that is often done on their own free time. Stamping our feet and demanding that a developer or set of developers continue working on a project that they no longer are interested in is a waste of effort unless we are that person's manager, and they are employed by us... as far as I know that's not the case here :-) Instead of fighting the evolution of our favorite DE (whichever that may be) it's a lot better to help out where we can. If you're not a software developer, then write some documentation (a lot of people complaining here on the list grouse about not being able to read about how to use "new feature X" in the documentation but do zero about it). Anyway, nice detailed explanation Wil. Thanks. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org