Ubuntu 8.04 and KDE

[Derek Broughton]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> I love how that article ends "All this overlapping work on KDE and GNOME
> could be put to better use, matching or beating the innovation and
> performance of proprietary operating-system interfaces."
> 
> I agree completely, but the problem is nobody will ever agree on which
> project is a monumental waste of effort.
> 
> Of course it's GNOME, 

LOL - but you're preaching to the converted on this list. :-)

> The bottom line is that if one project or the other decided to cease
> development, the newly "unemployed" volunteer developers would not move
> over
> to the other side anyway.  We work on whatever we love, and you don't just
> swap in one love for another.  The game doesn't work that way.

Very well said - except that I don't really agree that "overlapping" work on
KDE & Gnome is wasted.  I always say FLOSS is evolutionary, rarely
revolutionary.  Like evolution, our software develops by following many
paths, _most_ of which fail, but occasionally an improvement comes along 
and it gets adopted widely.  But that means that it's always to our
advantage to have development occuring on as many fronts as possible.
-- 
derek