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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] 3.5 announcement feedback
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-12-13 23:43:03
Message-ID: 200512131643.03928.aseigo () kde ! org
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want some nice feedback about how important communicating our community's 
feelings are to the outside world? here's linus torvalds' take on the 3.5 
announcement and visual guide, snipped from a much larger and very insightful 
email ...

congrats to all involved with this stuff. the world is watching, and they like 
what they are seeing.

luv 'n hugs...

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Subject: Re: [Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME
Date: Tuesday 13 December 2005 14:44
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I think the KDE development process has been a lot more "lively", and I
think a _lot_ of the reason for that has been that they haven't allowed
the "interface nazi" kind of stifling of what people feel they need to do.
Read the recent KDE-3.5 release announcement with the "visual guide to new
features", and you can _feel_ the energy. Sure, they have three different
kinds of desktop choosers. So what? You don't have to use them. But the
capabilities are there if you want to.

And I think that's important. It's important, because that developer
energy, in the end, is what get things done. And as a side effect, you
will automatically end up with a system that understands that defaults may
be good, but that different people have different needs and views. Because
you had a very diverse group of people that worked on it.

So developers are more energized, and I think users are also automatically
happier. They may not even realize why, but I believe it's to a large part
because their needs are taken care of - not necessarily because they ask
for it, but because the developers themselves are more varied and thus
tends to have more different needs, and often took care of the different
needs of the user base to some degree automatically.

This, btw, is also why a "enterprise desktop" should never be allowed to
drive development. It is, by definition, boring and same-old, same-old.

And if you don't see the parallels with "enterprise UNIX" and "Linux"
here, I think you're blind. The thing is, Linux (the kernel) got better
than just about any enterprise Unix kernel _not_ by trying to develop
itself for the enterprise, but by allowing and encouraging different kinds
of people to all scratch their own itch.

Yeah, the whole development process is a bit more chaotic, and maybe a bit
more "cluttered" and even scary, but the end result is BETTER. And yes,
Linux (the kernel) has a million drivers that the "serious guys" don't
care for. But that wild and crazy thing is exactly what made Linux a
success in the first place.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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