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Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'
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Dino,
It certainly is fascinating to watch the "big players" cut their own throats.
It certainly is fascinating to watch the "big players" cut their own throats.
Quoting:The easy answer, of course, is that they stumbled over the same problem that dogs most free software: the primacy of the developer. Out in the real world, developers don't generally run the show -- they run the development, answering to the folks who have to sell, support, and use their work.
Bingo Dino.
It is the nature of the beast. FOSS developers are in it for their please not for the money. It is up to the distributors, commercial or otherwise, to package it and make the best of it for the end users.
Mind you, I am not saying that is the right thing, they could and should do both.
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He understood the difference between a computer with an OS and a computer that you can use quite well.
Which brings the obvious question:
Could not the GNOME folks have understood the difference between application layer and OS kernel? Different needs, different approaches.
The easy answer, of course, is that they stumbled over the same problem that dogs most free software: the primacy of the developer. Out in the real world, developers don't generally run the show -- they run the development, answering to the folks who have to sell, support, and use their work.