{ "success": true, "comment": "\x3cdiv class=\"comment comment-published odd\"\x3e\n\n  \x3cdiv class=\"clear-block\"\x3e\n      \x3cspan class=\"submitted\"\x3eTue, 2009/06/09 - 5:42pm — \x3ca href=\"/users/josex\" title=\"View user profile.\"\x3eJose_X\x3c/a\x3e\x3c/span\x3e\n  \n  \n  \x3cdiv class=\"comment-score-div\"\x3e\n      \x3cspan class=\"comment-score-label\"\x3eScore: \x3c/span\x3e\x3cspan class=\"comment-score\"\x3e-3\x3c/span\x3e\n    \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \x3cdiv class=\"comment-voting-controls\"\x3e\n    \x3cspan class=\"comment-promote\"\x3e\x3c/span\x3e \x3cspan class=\"comment-bury\"\x3e\x3c/span\x3e\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \n    \x3ch3\x3eThis won\'t make me popular,\x3c/h3\x3e\n\n    \x3cdiv class=\"content\"\x3e\n      This won\'t make me popular, but have you forgotten who owns the Windows platform?\r\n\r\nIt\'s a great idea to get developers to switch to KDE devel. Being cross-platform might be the angle sought, but there are better ways to grow when you look at the long term. For example, help create that really hot new platform and you will likely gain more developers than you would when KDE is not so hot and developer resources are being spent running on Microsoft\'s treadmill.\r\n\r\n\"Ooops, Microsoft\'s update that fixed 100 \'bugs\' just broke many parts of KDE though it won\'t even be that obvious immediately except this will help KDE gain a reputation for being unstable and mercurial.. and waste even more developer time?\"\r\n\r\n\"What? KDE never really ran well on Windows ..and it was sluggish?\"\r\n\r\n\"So there aren\'t very many reasons for me to move to Linux since the \'few\' apps that are good work decently on Windows?\"\r\n\r\nYou guys have likely done your market research. Maybe just approaching \"cross-platform\" will get enough new devs to try out Linux LiveCDs and use the real thing.\r\n\r\nIn any case, there is lot\'s of point-counterpoint on this thread: http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2009060601135OSKE .\r\n\r\nHas the KDE project considered starting a long themed series of Live distros to showcase a few apps at a time or a few features at a time or a few devel tools at a time? Make the distro a learning tool (with guided tour and learning pop-ups). Create a KDE tool to customize distros. All of these things will grab developers\' attention more than a flaky port. These things are unique and their potential (esp considering the licensing and community backing) is huge. Sell what counts. Make KDE better. Don\'t help Monopolysoft. They won\'t give you an easy time while you try to beat them on their turf and rob them of their monopoly levers and profits. They are closed for a reason.\r\n\r\nThere is much work to be done to realize KDE\'s potential and reach developers the effective way -- by impressing the heck out of them relative to what they know. Porting to Windows is taking steps in the wrong direction: away from FOSS, away from control, away from transparency, away from a level synergistic playing field.\r\n\r\nDon\'t help Monopolysoft or sell Linux and KDE a little short if you can at all help it.\r\n\r\nThanks for the work you all keep doing for KDE and Linux.\r\n          \x3c/div\x3e\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n\n  \x3c/div\x3e\n" }