When is an open-source project ready?
I’ve been getting told that my recent review of KDE 4 wasn’t fair because KDE 4 isn’t really ready for prime time. My response: “When is any program, especially an open-source program, ready?”
I’m not making light of this criticism of my review. WINE, everyone’s favorite way to run Windows programs on Linux, just reached 1.0 status after 15-years in the making. Its developers freely admit that while it’s very, very good at what it does, it’s far from perfect. None-the-less, many of us, including yours truly, have been using WINE for more than a decade.
Is it ready? It’s not only been ready, it’s been useful for years. It’s also only now a 1.0 release.
Or, let’s take a look at Firefox.
Clearly you can’t go by version numbers.
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