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Re: A sad state of affairs
by Ben on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @00:00

>I read an article in Communications last year about why Open Software projects fail (e.g. die) which would tend to indicate that they have a tendency to die.

I can't comment on this artical as I haven't read it, but from my, adminatdly anacdoctal experience, what happens is around 80% of open soruce products never get anywhere (because 80% of anything fails, or sucks). Those that get big tend to survive for a long time.

>It would have been better to simultaniously continue with 3.6, but we have two issues there

Any work done on 3.6 would be mostly ignored if KDE 4.0 is out. Developers would be relitively uninterested since they cant use all the cool new libs created for 4.0, and as soon as 4.1.1 is out it will all that effort would be forgotten. However I think they do plan bugfix releases for 3.5 for a bit longer past KDE4

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Re: A sad state of affairs
by scratching my head on Sunday 08/Jul/2007, @04:22

<i>"from my, adminatdly anacdoctal experience, what happens is around 80% of open soruce products never get anywhere"</i>

And how many *commercial* products do never get anywhere??

What? You don't know??

I'll tell ya': it's nearly 90%.

Of course you never hear about them.

Because their design, inception, coding is done behind closed doors.

Lots of money being poured in.

But then, somewhere on their way to a shipping-worth product the management discovers that the market does not need it, that the software has too heavy design flaws, that the competition was faster and dominates everything already, $some-other-reason...

If you think that in the commercial world of software development the majority of closed source products you need to inhabit a different world from this one next time you live. Maybe there you find the Wonderland you imagine....

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