On Sun, 17 May 2009 06:45:34 +1000 Lorn Potter <[email protected]> said:
> What I don't get is why people think it's bad to have more than one > open source 'solution'. If reinventing the wheel was bad, we > wouldn't have KDE, gnome, gtk, and even python, FSO and Linux, for > that matter. Reinventing the wheel, is _good_. dude... you are a lone voice in the wilderness. i agree 100% competition is good! it pushes your competitors and yourself. new things wouldn't happen if it was not for direct competition. well not radical new things, and often such things can totally change things. so in general re-inventing the wheel is a god thing. i dont speak for ofono vs fso as i dont know the technical details enough to make a comment, but it's sad to see the narrow-minds of developers or users who like to think re-inventing something is all SOOOO bad and that everyone must conform to the existing solution/software and use/develop for it etc. (if that were the case we'd all stick to windows... why this linux crap? it re-invents the operating system. hell! its a CLONE of unix! why shouldn't we have stuck to minix? or hell - that was a clone. stick to sunos... or....?). people should look in their own back yard before crying "nih!" as the vast majority of the software they like and use is a result of "nih"... -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
