Cliff Wells wrote:
> Well, I think this exposes one of the more interesting sides of open > source software in general. For better or worse, you get choices. If > you don't like choice, you won't like open source. Many choices is > sometimes great, sometimes annoying, but the bottom line is that very > little is spoon-fed to you, and choice and flexibility are the primary > reasons most people choose open source (this was the overwhelming > verdict of a survey SuSE took a while ago). You can't even *run* Linux > without making a few basic choices (Which distro? Which architecture? > Which GUI? etc). If you really expect this to change then I expect > there are many frustrating days ahead for you. I think most end users > of Linux wish that the GNOME and KDE teams would merge (and there would > be a great benefit, I expect, in reduced duplication of effort), but > quite frankly, it ain't gonna happen, and quite probably there would be > a lot of downsides to such an event as well. I agree with you. And having choices is what is good, specially because there is no single solution for all problems. And I find it great to have this freedom to choose specially because not everybody share the same aesthetics idea. What some people find beautiful I don't like and vice-versa. -- Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list