Quoth burns: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:20, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > Maybe you should widen your field of vision. > > The problem is, my field of vision *is* much wider - wider than OS > software. This really is one of the major limitations to the acceptance > of open source solutions by leading system integrators and IT service > companies. Thus the reason for my rant. > > In this case, we're not talking about a personal media-player. We're > talking about fairly serious development tools that can affect hundreds > of software projects and dependent applications. > > I work for one of the largest IT services company in North America. > Things like this are invariably considered fairly serious problems in > product selection/due diligence evaluations for a client's architecture. > It makes it harder to sell Linux and common Linux applications.
You can always pick a version that you'll support and stick with that for N years. But, as I've said elsewhere, I quite agree that API stability is a best practice that many open source projects would do well to adopt. Some do; most don't, yet. A bigger issue for me is reliance on one toolkit, such as GTK+ or Qt, to the exclusion of others, for GUI interfaces. > For Linux to be accepted across the board, major issues such as this > need to be addressed. It's OK for small boutique software offerings. But > if Linux wants to play seriously at the enterprise level, there is a > certain amount of discipline that will have to be adopted by the > community. Nod. Kurt -- McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom: If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not $19.95. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users