Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE • Hacker News Board

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

#11

Post by nomdep » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

This story need some context. Who are Nate and Dave? Why the deal with Steam went automatically to Nate?

UPDATE: Apparently it was a deal done months ago with the Blue Systems owner: https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/10/personal-and-professio...

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by rurban » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:48 PM UTC

Shit move by Nate, but Jonathan did the right thing.

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by logicchains » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

Nate sounds like the kind of person to lie to your former colleagues about you; I'd suggest reaching out to them to tell them what happened. Staying silent is letting Nate win.

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by nomdep » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC

The other side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266332

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by probablypower » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC

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Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by _bent » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:22 PM UTC

nomdep wrote: post #11

This story need some context. Who are Nate and Dave? Why the deal with Steam went automatically to Nate? UPDATE: Apparently it was a deal done months ago with the Blue Systems owner: https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/10/personal-and-professio...

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Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:25 PM UTC

_bent wrote: post #16

nomdep wrote: post #11

This story need some context. Who are Nate and Dave? Why the deal with Steam went automatically to Nate? UPDATE: Apparently it was a deal done months ago with the Blue Systems owner: https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/10/personal-and-professio...

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Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by dang » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

WorldPeas wrote: post #10

prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252463

Ah thanks! we've merged that thread hither.

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by bluedino » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

> It was the turn of the millenium when I got my first computer fresh at university. Windows seemed uninteresting, it was impossible to work out how it worked or write programs for it.

What? There were plenty of books out by Petzold, Richter and Prosise.

Re: Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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Post by raverbashing » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 7:28 PM UTC

nomdep wrote: post #14

The other side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45266332

Honestly, it seems some very technically minded people are very naive and very unprepared in regards to practical and legal aspects of life elsewhere.

While building a career over such a project like KDE is certainly laudable it seems it leaves people in a very precarious position where the number of companies worldwide where you can be employed at any given time can be counted with the fingers in one hand, with some to spare