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Re: Fast pace
by Greg on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @14:12
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Actually, I don't like it and I have several reasons why.
First: Stability. I like a cutting edge system, but I also want it to work. With only a month for programmers to find and fix bugs, releases get out that are not exactly stable. Also, it doesn't give a lot of time to optimize code. You can get it to work, but will it work fast and efficient?
Second: Upgrading. I would rather wait until a program has been fully implemented than to see little bits and pieces of improvement or fixes as releases go by. Its progress, but it doesn't seem worth going through an upgrade.
Third: Time. For nine out of 12 months I live on a college campus and have a blistering fast T3 connection. For the other 3 I live off campus and have a 56k dialup modem. Pretty soon I plan to live off campus 12 months a year (all year) and will have a 56k modem until broadband prices fall and it becomes available in whatever area I will live in. That said, it will take me quite some time to download the tarballs for a release. Compiling, too takes some time (even on a 1 gig Athlon). So I would want to actually spend more time in the windowmanager than getting it and compiling it. My grandmother is quoted by saying "I don't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a computer when there really isn't much left." She's pushing 70 years now and is moderately healthy, but you can understand her argument.
Fourth: Time. This is different in that it relates to the developers. This is free software and so any of the developers develop as volunteers. Consequently, I don't wish to rush them or crowd their lives anymore than they might already be because this college kid wants pretty fonts on a free OS. Also, I soon will be among the list of developers around the world, and intend to contribute to the open source community; still, I would consider it a secondary activity (if not a hobby), presumably as do many of the developers of KDE and its app family. Hobby should not take precedence over making a living. That may sound overly capitalistic, but "whoever said money is the root of all evil obviously never went hungry." I forgot who said that, maybe it was a rapper, maybe it was Murphy.
So thats my opinion, not meant to be inflammatory. Maybe I will be one of the KDE developers one day, or will develop a really cool KDE app. Only time will tell. |
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