Why KDE 4 Matters

So I was over at headrush.typepad.com as I randomly surfed the interweb, and found a funny image there, which I repost here. (Hopefully attribution is enough to satisfy the copyright types, and forgive me for my hotlinking...)

And this explains why KDE 4.0 is an important event, and why we never would be able to get there with incremental, *ubuntu-style releases. This is also why Gnome is just now starting to talk about their long term future, since they've been stuck in the incremental stuff for a while and I'm getting the feeling that some of them feel trapped in the cycle.

Cheers to KDE 4 and the crossing of the Big Fricken' Wall.