2010/12/5 Gérard Fargeot <gerard.farg...@orange.fr>: > You are dreaming. > > In OOo we have so many versions as "distro", LibO is taking the same road. > Each distro (each dev.) want his own built. > We are not able to have 1 same product and you want an association with > others suite... > > This is the big problem of open source. > > Gérard
Not sure if this is a big problem or not... I tend to think "proliferation" in FOSS world is a big *solution*: there are more opportunities for new ideas... And all FOSS ideas can be reused. But yes, IMO the idea to merge all those project it's only a dream... or a nightmare: how will you convince the GTK programmers to learn Qt (or vice-versa)? How will you manage to merge a text oriented app like Writer with a frame oriented app like kword? How will you convince users of abiword, that only need basic features, to load a full featured (and resource hungry) word processor with all the features of Writer and kword? How...? There are lots of people that will never contribute to a GTK (or Qt) project because they do not know how GTK (or Qt) works. And that's perfectly fine: it is called freedom of choice. If you replace a defacto proprietary monopoly with a defacto opensource monopoly, you'll still have a defacto monopoly... and that's not good. Ricardo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
