Shuttleworth has some nice words for KDE

Is Mr Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, slowly warming towards KDE? Or is the man merely trying to keep the KDE folk onside, after a whole host of “technical writers” have attacked the new release of that desktop environment?
Whatever the reason(s), his latest comments - in an interview given to the publication derStandard.at - make for interesting reading.

Like many others who are part of some camp or the other, people who are part of the free and open source software community often tend to fall into the mistake of circling the wagons and not admitting to essential truths, even when these become self-evident. If we do happen to ventilate - and I’m often “guilty” of that cardinal “sin” - then the rest of the righteous crowd shouts us down.

Read more at iTWire


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