From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 19 12:34:15 2006
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:34:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: New special effects library
Message-Id: <200612191334.17471.zander () kde ! org>
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:40, Zack Rusin wrote:
> It looks like we're trying to market libraries which in turn is pretty
> bizarre. Users don't care, or should never have to care about technologies
> under the applications they're using, so the existence of Phonon, Solid or
> Decibel doesn't matter to them.

If we were a company; I'd agree. But we are an open source project and afte=
r=20
targeting users, we have to realize that the only way we can go on living i=
s=20
getting new developers.  So we market for new developers as much, or even=20
more, than for end users.
Which makes having cool library names a pretty big deal.

=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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