Kurt Wall wrote: > > Scribbling feverishly on April 13, Collins managed to emit: > > [ snips ] > > [mondo snippage] > > > > Who knows. At this point I really can't see myself spending the > > > time to go to KDE 3 so if it's fixed fine, if not fine. > > > essentially telling people that the release software is not > > > supported just won't fly. > > > > I think I rest my case. From my standpoint, if I don't have time to > > try the current product, why should I expect the developers to spend > > time with my problem? > > Why don't the developers fix the current problems before propagating > them to the next release? "It's fixed in the next release" is not > an acceptable answer -- that's camouflage for "I'd rather hack on > the neato whiz bang widget." If KDE (or GNOME, or anything else) > want to play with the big boys, they have to stabilize current > products before abandoning them for the next generation. > <SNIP> > > All those irons in the fire are part of the problem. If you try to be > all things to all people, you end up satisfying no noe. Do one thing; > do it well; do it right. Or, to put it another way: Good, cheap, > fast -- pick any two.
I remember hearing an author at a book signing once say something to the effect: "To be successful, you must analyse what you do, decide what things you _can't_ do best...and do the other things" Ian _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
