I found this to be well written, cogent and interesting. Perhaps you will also like it…
Fanboys in Free Software | Martin’s Blog
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I scanned that post - it is essentially mental mast%rb%tion. Basically, it should be categorized as “who gives a sht?”!
Now we all know the irrational reasons on why to not use GNOME software.
Doe the above statement indicate that he is a KDE fanboy 
? He seems to be criticizing himself (showing signs of fanboy-ism)
I can understand where he is coming from. It is very difficult when you become a target for hate but, ironically, it very often happens to people who are perceived to be successful and whom people envy.
I don’t think the article is entirely congent, more an attempt to lay out his feelings and work out what he should do about them. But I am sure that he needs a support group within which to talk about the issues which is less public. The problem is not going to go away and ultimately the only way you can deal with people who hate is to make a relationship with them; excluding them in any way justifies to them that they were right to hate.
I liked the thought process shown because it does show a seemingly connected link between cause and effect for releases of software and apologies for flaws in them. For some of them it is as if the ones doing the fanboy apologies are actually somehow fixing the flaws in their own mind instead of wishing in an unbiased manner that the software or program was better and offering constructive criticism or thoughtful suggestions of possible changes to improve the item discussed.
In my own experience I have been using KDE since it came out on Caldera 2.2 software and made an attempt at being a working desktop. I believe that was 1.1 version or something like that. I also tried Gnome at the time and several times after but never found it to my liking. It worked but my ideas of what a desktop should do were more in tune with Win 98, KDE or CDE desktops and Gnome was just different enough to not be something I chose to use going forward.
I have stayed with KDE and was one of the folks who really didn’t like the 4.0 version after 3.51 which worked well and was easy to customize. I complained at the time in forums but my complaints were based on usability, not some fanboy ‘this is good and that is bad’ manner. My real fundamental idea about any kind of software, be it Linux, Windows, DOS, Unix, Mc or whatever is that I need to do work with it and will it do what I want. If it does and it is easy to understand and reliable then I will give it a try. If not, I move on to other software. I truly believe this is software and not religion which was a note that I saw in the post and agreed with from the viewpoint of some posts I have read in many of the distributions forums I have followed over the years. I have used SUSE the most but also Mandriva, Mageia, Mandrake before Mandriva and a few times Fedora after Red Hat started that. My first install was Red Hat 5.0 and I recall at the time I had a hard time installing it and when it was up and running on an HP 33 desktop computer with an updated AMD 486 133 mhz chip and 48 MB of RAM that ‘Now it is running but what can I do with it’ was the thought in my mind. When KDE came out on Caldera I was at last able to see what I was doing and things have progressed from there for all Linux software.
If we would all try to work to improve the software or constructively offer hints or suggestions then things can improve without all the ill will spouted out at times. I understand the sheer fact that you can be almost anonymous or actually anonymous in some sense in forums lets some trolls act in a manner that would be impossible for them face to face in a group. (Ignoring the NSA snooping for the moment…) If they revel in that it is because they are wired that way in their head, I guess. Rude? Definitely. Unusual to be that way? Sadly, not…
Oh well, I showed this link because I thought it was good to see a thought process from a developer who has had surprisingly negative feedback from some folks in the web. I myself have benefited from the work he has done and will say ‘Thanks for the effort’ here and have donated to KDE in the past. When SuSE was free or Professional version I always bought the boxed Pro set because it had the books and because it gave money to SuSE. The same was true with Mandriva when I used it. I am that ‘mythical creature called a desktop Linux user’ so that was a way for me to contribute to the companies by paying cash for the software. In the forums for Mandriva some of the most demanding complaints were from the free folks and not the members buying the deluxe power pack version.Things for Mandriva spiraled out of control for many reasons (not mentioned here) and it is more or less laying on the floor like a gasping fish at this time. I digress…
Anyway. for those who work on this stuff, thanks! For those who contribute, thanks! For those who carp and crab and contribute nothing, well, I won’t follow on with what I think about that. 
Cheers all,
I noticed that I typed interesting incorrectly… sigh:shame:
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