On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:06 on Wednesday 11 May 2011, Indi did > opine > thusly: > > > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that > > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. > > Why did the devs switch? Market pressures really. If you don't spot emerging > trends and follow them early, you run the risk of becoming redundant very > quickly. Ask Microsoft, they know all about this. > > They went from the undisputed behemoth market leader to staring the very real > threat of total obsolescence in three very short years. > > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. >
So the answer is "prophylactic self-destruction"? ***ducks*** I kid, forgive me... :) -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
