Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Jul 2006 21:48 UTC
Politicians. They are a certain type of people. I do not like them. Many do not like them. I think if there's one thing all of man has in common, whether he be Christian or Muslim, black or white, young or old, American or European, is a dislike of politicians. But then-- why on earth do we allow politics to complicate software? Note: Sunday Eve Column.
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2006-01-24
Well, i've never used a single one of those apps and find GNOME to be reasonably useful (though KDE suits my needs better).
What youre really saying is that the only decent GNOME implementation is the one in SuSE/Novell Linux, and everyone should just STFU and do it Novells way.
But thats not really what open source, including GNOME - is about - open source is a development methodology - by developers, for developers. its got no real implicit advantage for end users, and I guess thats why youre complaining.
So if you dont like open source, and the way open source development occurs, then go spend your time with a customer focussed commercial solution, if thats what you want.
This is the way it is supposed to work - The source for all this stuff is available, and it is up to distribution vendors to package it up and integrate it to meet their customers needs.
There is no requirement for the GNOME foundation to choose a single option, and especially one that is so obviously prone to patent attacks by Microsoft.
I, personally, would prefer to see anything but Mono in GNOME, and yeah, mostly because its a MS technology and I dont trust them. I imagine a lot of others have the same trust issues with MS as I do.
Regardless of your or my personal opinions on the matter, the issues will be worked out by the developers, in a way that favours the developers, on the developers schedule. In the interim, the users will just have to wait.
If Novell can integrate Mono and make 'indispensable' applications available to you, whats the problem? Get on with using your PC like you say you want to, and stop posting this stuff.