A User's Freedom to Choose
There has been a lot of vitriol lofted towards the KDE 4 development folks lately, with calls for forking and the questioning of the need for users getting lobbed back and forth between the two sides of the argument. Emotions are running high, and there seems to be no way of resolving the issues that have gotten people so upset.
On one hand, there's a slew of users who do not like where KDE 4 is going. The look, the framework, Aaron's Seigo's apparent loathing of the Shift key... you name it, and it's gotten people riled. They've tried KDE 4, and they don't like it. They've tried the development editions of KDE 4.1 and they still don't like it. Nothing, it seems, can appease these folks who hate KDE 4.
It's gotten pretty bad, I suspect. I just noted today that Seigo, who is a strong voice in the general open source community, has apparently closed off general access to his blog. Having been on the receiving end of a community lynch mob, I can hardly blame him.
The irony here is that the same folks who have gone out of their way to decry KDE 4 have often claimed to be proponents of choice. But the option of choice seems to have been forgotten when it comes to using KDE 4.
It comes down to one simple question: who's holding a gun to anyone's head to use KDE 4?
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