Star When OSS-based Corporations and (some) OSS Hackers Clash
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Mar 2003 17:43 UTC
Editorial 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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@Eugenia
by Adam on Thu 13th Mar 2003 18:27 UTC

[First of all, only SOME of you are getting the hot cake from my article. There are plenty of individual hackers who are very cooperative and they "get it". But others don't.
Linux has become commercial a lot, it is naive to think otherwise. Some rules have changed over the years. And personally, I find that positive for the Linux platform adoption.]

And all those who don't fall in line with what the corporations want some how 'don't get it'. No, I think I understand you just fine.

[Knee jerk (non)thinking. Sorry.
I don't "like" Red Hat, neither I "like" Mandrake or SuSE. None of them is paying for my monthly rent. Heck, I don't even use Linux as much as I use XP or OSX (which I prefer for desktop operations).]

"...RedHat and what they are doing." If you are going to quote then at least do it in context. So, you don't like what RedHat is doing? You don't identify them as the champion of this 'integrate above all else' philosophy? Ok, Eugenia, if you don't use Linux on the desktop then you should write Apple and tell them how they shoudl integrate Aqua with KDE and GNOME because all of these different desktops is only hurting the Unix desktop.

[But what I wrote is SIMPLY what I believe it should be done if you want to see Linux as a desktop platform having more than 0,40% of the market. If you want to leave things as is, that's fine for me. But IF Linux platform wants to get more users and PROVE all that hype it's got, then you better co-operate.]

Oh yah, back to the 'it's just my opinion' thing again. Ok, well I SIMPLY believe that you are full of crap, insulting, and have no appreciation for what the non-commercial developers have done. Sorry. That's just my opinion ;)