From kde-devel  Mon Mar 14 21:32:21 2005
From: Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:32:21 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Allow money donations for precise bugs
Message-Id: <423602E5.8030004 () tin ! it>
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Miles Stevenson wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2005 11:24 am, Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> 
>>If they *really* were to go away, they would be a minority of very fanatic,
>>or very antidemocratic, or very stupid, people. So, IMHO, it would be
>>better to loose them.
> 
> 
> Perhaps we should scale down the name calling and attempt a more constructive 
> conversation of this issue.
> 
> From what I understand, many KDE developers (I am not one of them) are against 
> trading money for features/bugfixes because they feel that KDE will become a 
> "user-centric" desktop, 

I have just written a post where I explain why IMHO this is absolutely false. 
  The title is "Apologies and clearing of misunderstandings".

> meaning that they will have to start producing what 
> the users want instead of what the developers want.
> 
> On the surface, this seems reasonable. It is generally assumed that users 
> (meaning users without any software development or design experience) want 
> useless features because they don't know what works best, while developers 
> want the "right" features, whatever that is.


This problem is clearly dealt with in the post mentioned above. Exceuse me if 
I don't duplicate the answer here.

I appreciate and agree with the rest of your post.

Maurizio
 
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