On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 01:48:51 -0600, Chris Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > We need to understand that due to the fact that most Linux software is > Open Source (in other words, there is no one entity orchestrating the > development of it), of course we are bound to run into compatibility > problems once in a while.
You need to understand that Open Source has absolutely nothing to do with not having a development lead. I could cite hundreds of examples, but I won't, I'll just cite one: Novell (your employer, you should get to know them better). Novell has many open source projects all orchestrated by the same heirarchy as their closed-source projects. Okay, I can't resist, let's cite a few others: Linux, GNOME, OpenOffice, Gaim, Mozilla, The GIMP... I suppose you might mean that there isn't much coordination between any two of those projects, but you ought to realize that your own dev team probably has no idea what the NDS team is doing right now, nor what the SuSE team is doing, etc., etc.. In fact it's at least as difficult for teams in a company to coordinate as it is for open source projects to coordinate where needed. The fact that there isn't a CEO at the top trying to keep investors, customers, and market analysts happy (not a bad thing) doesn't mean that there won't be cooperation between projects where needed. For an example see freedesktop.org which is actively coordinating efforts of KDE and GNOME so that they can be in many ways compatible. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
