Even if he does
not participate actively on TDE anymore, what he provides is still of
great value, probably of a few hundreds of dollars per months. Please
consider TDE to be in maintenance mode, with changes made only to make it
still work on newer linux systems.
that's precisely why i recommend it for my clients, as it is *not*
modified / enhanced / feature-upgraded and so on. my clients are
*specifically* used to KDE 3.5 and it would be an unmitigated disaster
for it to be "upgraded".