Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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> The arrogance and fragmentation of the community is why
> Linux doesn’t have much of the desktop market.
One man's "arrogance" is another man's pragmatism.
Keep in mind that much open-source software is designed and written to address a personal need, not a desire to win a more generalized market share.
> Why do we need KDE and GNOME. Why not just focus on one
> and make it work.
Which one? Who makes the choice? And who enforces that choice once it is made?
Red Hat is moving towards a unified desktop presentation, and look at the flak they've gotten. It might be a good move or not (hard to say), but such decisions have to be made within the confines of the Linux community -- they cannot be dictated.
> People often argue that “choice” is important but what
> good is it when you have to choose between a bunch of
> half broken things.
Not much different from the Microsoft world in that regard, is it? :-)