Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
A KDE developer tipped me off to a recent thread discussed in the kde-core-devel mailing list regarding interoperability between KDE and Gnome. OSNews featured an interview with the usability experts from Gnome and KDE a few days ago and we expected that the spirit of co-operation would continue to get stronger every day. Luckily this is true regarding most of these developers, but not for all of them are sharing it. Here is a commentary on the issue followed by a summary of the long thread.
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"I believe that the real problem in co-operation between Gnome and KDE (as I see it in the mailing list discussion) are the people who don't work for these companies. These people (thankfully not all of them
don't view the world with the eyes of someone who wants to make a better product."
Ok, so all of us who care for and develop these projects in our own time should just go away so the corporations can turn our stuff into something that is 'usable for the masses'. How can you state that non-commercial developers don't wish to make the software better? Why don't you keep a list of non-commercial VS commercial developers whenever you use a piece of Free Software and see which is column is longer.
You should reread those lists and you'll find that many have *no problem* with shared specs and standards when no major disagreements exist in the implementation. Many disagree because so many view these common specs as one step towards holding integration across platforms above all else!