"After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with
KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing
their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The
debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters
engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has
escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork
in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an
observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm
convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive
direction for this debate..."
