WOW. . .those screenshots of 3.1Alpha are fantastic

cr cr at orcon.net.nz
Sat Jul 13 08:56:59 BST 2002


On Saturday 13 July 2002 03:54, Mary Stamper wrote:
> Is this perhaps one of the weaknesses of the KDE project? or of free
> software in general? Folks work on what they want to instead of worrying
> about what is needed to stay in business. As an employee of a company that
> sells services for  money, we have to work on what the users need, not
> always on what we think is most cool or most fun. Is this discipline
> perhaps lacking when there is no money to be made?

That may be valid in the case of small companies, but it certainly doesn't 
seem to apply in the case of Mickey$oft's bloatware (Opera's term for it   ;)
They obviously do NOT work on 'what the users need' but on 'what gimmicks can 
we foist on the suckers'. 

cr
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