• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Albert Knox on Wednesday 15/Nov/2000, @13:18

  Yeah right, there is actually no difference to the gnome foundation. AK

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by reihal on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @02:02

  Bazaar good, committe bad.

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• Re: KDE Announces Launch of the KDE League by Secret_danger_man on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @09:26

  You need to do better than that you crackhead! Gnome is still under a bazaar style of development, it just a has a steering committe. The steering committee most likely even a good idea because decisions have to get done somewhere. I is really quite funny you are talking about developement models because KDE is actually closer to the catherdal than bazaar! Gnome releases early and often but when how long was kde1.1.2 and kde2.0? You get the idea, a steering committe has little, if any, affect on the development model. You are welcome to try again, but be warned I am loaded and a crack shot.

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I personally don't like the corporate control that the KDE League has given in to. One of the great things about the GNOME Foundation is that companies can't be members of the Foundation. Foundation membership is only open to contributors (ie: Hackers, Documentors, Translators and Artists). The board consists of members and is elected by members. Corporate interests are relegated to an advisory board where they can give advice and advocate their point of view - but have no direct control over anything - neither technical direction nor PR.

The KDE League model seems to give the member corporations all the control and power in determining the PR and advocacy direction. I hope that taking the control of the public face of KDE away from the hackers that built it won't harm the project too much in the long term.