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6/30/2005

Never Underestimate Useless Projects

A while ago, I was a developer on an AIM client for KDE called Kinkatta (it was first called Kaim, but then we got a letter from AOL.) It was fun to work on, and it was kind of the first project I cared about contributing to. I ended up meeting with the lead developer while we were both working in the bay area. That project ended for various reasons. I think none of us had the time to work on it, and there was a better KDE AIM client in the pipeline.

Ben’s next project was a port of KDE to Darwin. If there’s anything more of a waste of time than porting a mostly crude (by comparison) desktop environment to an environment that already has a useable and professional UI, designed by professionals, I don’t know what it is. Why anyone would want to work on such a port is beyond me.

Anyway, Ben IM’ed me today. He’s moving to Norway to work on Qt on OS X for Trolltech.

I’m unbelievably jealous. This really demonstrates that industry people do notice all of these open source projects, mostly done in people’s spare time, and they do understand the value of the developers behind them. Developers can use these projects as demonstralbe proof that they know what they claim to know.

KDE on OS X might seem like a stupid idea to me, but it paid off pretty nicely for Ben. Never underestimate the benefits of useless projects.

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