At 09:33 PM 8/21/01 +0200, H�kan Waara wrote:
>Paul Rohr wrote:
>> As AbiWord developers, one of the things we take great pride in is the
fact
>> that nobody does cross-platform (XP) development better than we do. [1]
>
>Sorry, I can't resist. Mozilla and the technologies it provides for
>other developers do a very well job being XP, IMHO.
Gotcha! Made you bite! :-)
Of course you do. Absolutely. That's why we've gratefully adopted so many
of those excellent technologies (Bonsai, Tinderbox, Bugzilla, etc.). If
you'd had a different license, we could have leveraged more of your code,
too. ;-)
My point is simply that, even without the *stunning* corporate resources
behind Mozilla, we've grown an incredibly healthy, diverse, and sizable XP
development community that really leverages the strengths of Open Source
developers on a wide range of platforms.
I think you're ahead on platform coverage, but not by much.
I think you're ahead on translations, but not by much.
I know you're ahead on i18n, but Tomas et al are closing the gap.
I know you're ahead on users, but you had a *huge* head start.
I know you're ahead on features, but most of your developers are on salary.
I'm pretty sure we're ahead on contributors, but GPL is an unfair advantage.
Pound for pound, I challenge anyone -- Mozilla, Open Office, KOffice, you
name it -- to show they've done *better*.
Whoa! Boy, I'm getting feisty, huh? Where's the hose? :-)
Seriously, though. I'd like to return to my original claim, which is that
we're doing a great job of XP development, and if anyone knows how we could
do better, we'd *love* to have you help us get there.
Paul,
standing on the shoulders of lizards
