Developer Mosfet Back to Work on KDE Independently | Linux Today

Developer Mosfet Back to Work on KDE Independently

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2001

KDE developer Mosfet, who briefly
withdrew from the KDE project altogether
in a dispute over the
disposition of code he contributed to the project has announced on
his personal site that he will
continue his work indpendent of the overall KDE project.

” Pixie and Liquid and all the other stuff will continue to be
developed by me outside of KDE CVS (all I wanted to do in the first
place),” reads a brief message on his site.

The developer also pointed out that he considers the work he
contributed currently in KDE CVS to be forks of software he’ll be
releasing under new names shortly.

Web Webster

Web Webster

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