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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> But what I don't like is allowing these independent hackers get in the > way of evolution because of their own political/religious agendas
While I also am for integration, I also know this:
What you like or don't like is worthless in principle. The hacker's political/religious agendas, on the other hand, are important by default.
Why, because they are the ones spending effort on creating the thing in the first place. Sure, you are "grateful" for their work. But you also say you don't like that they spend their effort furthering their own goals!
Appreciation the means while condemning the ends is, of course, stupid, because the ends are the final cause of the means. If the hackers decided that their ends (their "political/religious agendas") could not be efficiently advanced by their work (the means), the work would stop in a jiffie.
And what would you be left with? Whatever commercial companies could afford to develop. Which, in the current situation, is very little.
My guess is that path leads to dead OSs, like OS/2 and BeOS, if history is any guide.
So, stop pretending that the current free software is somehow an unexpectedly good side effect of the hackers, it is provided to you ONLY by them, and if they didn't have those "political/religious agendas", they wouldn't have provided it to you.
If you want to influence what they are giving you, the smart course of action is embracing them and convincing them, kindly and politely. And the sentence I quoted above is definitely a stupid course of action.