Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 85.178.201.37]
on July 17, 2008 06:58 AM
Actually the fix it part is not as rude as it seems. It seems rude if you are in a commercial product mindset. It would be very rude for a company delivering a product you might even have to pay for to say this. Within the open source world it's not really rude at all. You don't have to be a programmer to help fix things. Contributing bug reports and helping the developers to figure them out and fix them is as much contributing as writing code. Only through participation can FOSS be a much better experience than closed source. And I don't think it's too much to expect contribution.
Of course the whole KDE 4 matter wasn't handled well. I wonder why they didn't just call it 4.0 beta or even 3.9 something to make the state of the software obvious when looking at the version number. It's not really clever to use a point zero version number for work in progress.
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Re: If you don't like it, fix it. WTF?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 85.178.201.37] on July 17, 2008 06:58 AMOf course the whole KDE 4 matter wasn't handled well. I wonder why they didn't just call it 4.0 beta or even 3.9 something to make the state of the software obvious when looking at the version number. It's not really clever to use a point zero version number for work in progress.
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