On 2012.07.27 03:37, Duncan wrote: [snip] > > Not that such promises hold much credibility anyway... see the kde > promise (from Aaron S when he was president of KDE e.v. so as > credible a spokesperson as it gets) continued kde3 support as long > as there were > users. (AFAIK, at least gnome didn't make /that/ sort of promise in > the leadup to gnome3. And no, AS cannot be properly argued to have > been > referring to others, like debian with its slow release cycles, as he > was > president of kde ev, not president of debian, or of the trinity > project, > which AFAIK didn't even exist at the time, and didn't specify support > from OTHERS, not kde, so he was clearly speaking for kde, not for > other > entities.) > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > Duncan,
You don't want to listen to Presidents too much. Look at other real life examples. Would you claim that the President of the Gentoo Foundation speaks for Gentoo? -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) Gentoo Foundation Inc. (President)
