On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: > > As for your argument on "living on the same apartment", I disagree a bit. I > think we're still at the "same building" stage, where we share our piping, > heating, electricity, we cooperate in the building council, but we haven't yet > moved into the same unit.
I'm afraid you are condemned to live in the same unit. At least if you want more applications to move in. :-) > > Another way to see it is from the "Innovator's Solution" book. The author > expresses a theory in which companies and entities go through cycles of > interdependency and modularity. I think that applies to us: we're still in the > state of interdependency, where the product is "not good enough" yet and we > need a high level of flexibility and the ability to make non-standard > interfaces, in order to stay competitive. > KDE and GNOME are definitely acting like companies, there are a lot of competitive feelings involved. The problem is, that you are not only trying to build different cars, but also your own roads. This won't turn out well. "[...] uncoordinated markets driven by parties working in their own self interest are unable to provide these goods in desired quantities." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good) Norbert _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list