Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Nov 2007 23:31 UTC
"The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications. However, whether the statement's attempt at logical rebuttal will do anything to reduce the emotions or altruism behind the criticisms is anybody's guess."
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Member since:2005-07-07
The fact that both have it in common doesn't mean one comes from the other...
Of course you are free to believe it to be pure coincidence that D-Bus, as an IPC mechanism for desktop applications, basically works like DCOP, also an IPC mechanism for desktop applications.
As a D-Bus bindings maintainer I believe that the concepts used by DCOP have proven to allow extraordinary cooperation of applications and easy to use for application developers and that wise software engineers like Havoc Pennington understood this well enough to base their design on the same, proven, principles.
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2005-09-27
GNOME and KDE both draw windows, do that mean one invented it?
No, the messages system in the way DBUS implemented it existed way before DCOP existed. The fact that both have it in common doesn't mean one comes from the other and like I say, DCOP was and is a mess, read the code.
Edited 2007-11-26 20:48