On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:03:44AM +0200, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > Ossi's email demonstrates an utter lack of understanding on his part > as to what kdelibs is. > errrm ... right. i hope you had enough time now to rethink that statement. ;)
> we do not control all (or even most) of the > Linux OS space. it's a little megalomaniacal to think we can or should and > still be able to develop effective applications and solutions for our users. > division of labour is pretty important in achieving that, particularly as > F/OSS does not particularly have a huge amount of resources that we can > afford > to waste on duplication without serious benefit arrising from it. > i'm not sure whether this was a taunt in gnome's direction or a complete misunderstanding of what i said ... but anyway: thanks for making my point better than i ever could have myself. :P > imho in a more perfect world, the current efforts from the GNOME community > would concentrate almost exclusively on the kind of middleware that they have > shown an interest and resource readiness for and we'd concentrate almost > exclusively on portable application libraries, applications and workspaces. > i think about 90% of the gnome community would consider this a pretty ridiculous statement ...