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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Identities of KOffice and KDE [was: Small KOffice interaction
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-11-04 22:14:49
Message-ID: 200611042314.49760.zander () kde ! org
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On Saturday 04 November 2006 23:01, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> > it's a challenge, yes. but is fairly much dictated by the division
> > of labour in the free software community.
>
> Re "division of labour in the free software community.": if I can use
> your "pizza car" example: users should not (but are allowed to) be
> interested in discovering how the the pizza car was developed, i.e.
> where its breaks come from and why the engine comes from a different
> factory than brakes ;) In fact, as you even mentioned, users of the
> "pizza" product do not even care about methods of delivering the
> product

Interresting use of Aarons analogy, but it strays very wide of the 
points we were addressing; the way in which we market KOffice based on 
the constraints we live in.

> BTW: Coming to end of this discussion, I'd like to mention the T.
> Zander's kdedevelopers post[1] about dealing with distributors
> decreasing perceived value of our products (due to laziness or lack
> of time or ignorance, to name just three reasons?).

> The dream is about a global tool (a message board) within KDE that
> allows us to list the problems, communicate our position verbosely

I think you can continue to host the one about Kexi on the kexi wiki. 
But your solution of shouting loudly about problems is not a solution I 
can live with.

-- 
Thomas Zander

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