KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 213.203.159.55]
on July 16, 2008 09:10 PM
The reasons for the user revolt against KDE 4, which we reported on yesterday, are still being sorted out... One reason that has yet to be discussed is one of the potentially most significant - the apparent shift in the FOSS user base.
The shift in the FOSS user base started happening years ago, and it is absolutely necessary that it continues, if FOSS is to survive. This is a much more general issue than the current KDE4 morass, of course, and I do NOT mean with this that the complaining users are 100% right. While we're at this, however, I'd like to remind to the community a couple of things I wrote that may help KDE4 or any other community of FOSS developers/advocates to figure out how to handle this user base shift in the future:
Seven things we're tired of hearing from software hackers (http://digifreedom.net/node/56)
A Free Software manifesto for all of us (http://digifreedom.net/node/57)
Feedback is always welcome, of course: my email address is on the website).
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KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 213.203.159.55] on July 16, 2008 09:10 PMThe shift in the FOSS user base started happening years ago, and it is absolutely necessary that it continues, if FOSS is to survive. This is a much more general issue than the current KDE4 morass, of course, and I do NOT mean with this that the complaining users are 100% right. While we're at this, however, I'd like to remind to the community a couple of things I wrote that may help KDE4 or any other community of FOSS developers/advocates to figure out how to handle this user base shift in the future:
Seven things we're tired of hearing from software hackers (http://digifreedom.net/node/56)
A Free Software manifesto for all of us (http://digifreedom.net/node/57)
Feedback is always welcome, of course: my email address is on the website).
Best Regards,
M. Fioretti
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