Yet another failed KDE release?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2013-05-08, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 May 2013 05:36 my mailbox was graced by a message from
> Kevin
> 
> Krammer who wrote:
> > I doubt Claws or any mail user agent can provide the same functionality
> > of all  KDE [1] software products people are currently using.
> > Might be able to replace KMail, but I have my doubts on whether they
> > would be  able to work as a desktop shell, a document viewer, file
> > manager, browser, calendar, text editor, etc.
> > [1] assuming for a moment that you accidentally used the vendor name to
> > refer  to all software products of said vendor
> 
> Well, this is the problem: I am not looking for all the functionalities of
> KDE, just looking for a mail client, to add to the small install on a
> palmtop with limited HD capacity, and thought of KMail which I use daily
> on the desktop.

I was just commenting on the overreach of the statement.
As a vendor with dozens of products, KDE has a lot of offerings people use 
while they are not using others.

As I wrote yesterday, statements similar to that often spring from a 
fundamental misunderstanding about multi product vendors in the FOSS world or 
can lead an unprepared audience into such misunderstandings.
Hence the need to add more context.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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