On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Oh, generally speaking nothing. In this case, the fact that Cocoon could > *easily* implement the same stuff and I want Forrest to do it (checkout > xml-forrest and read the docs to know more!)
You might be underestimating just how much Radio does. There's much more to it then just simple blogging. I use it heavily and while I certainly think it would be cool to have a replacement built around more modern technology I have no real motivation to create one, Radio works just fine "most" of the time. It's also cheap and reasonably open, you can hack most of the source that runs the thing if you really want. Could it be improved? You bet it can, but for Radio users the motivation is low as it works pretty well now. Also it sounds like what you're describing is more of a Manila replacement then a Radio replacement. While the general tech is the same, the philosophy and the details are somewhat different. i.e. desktop app vs. server app, multi user vs. single user. There's also some additional intangible appeal to Radio from a community perspective. Could this be duplicated? Yes of course, but that will be even more difficult. For me personally I'm also kind of rubbed the wrong way by the "crushing userland" idea. I don't subscribe to the Free Software philosophy and have no problem using commercial software when it is better then open source offerings. This is why I use Mac OS X and it's why I use Radio. One of the appeals of the ASF is that it doesn't espouse this fanatical GPL wielding philosophy of free software everywhere and this works in our favor by being openly friendly to commercial endeavors. If we start founding projects with the goal of "crushing company X", that sends a very bad signal to those companies that are paying developers to work on ASF projects. This is regardless of how wacked out the CEO of company X may be. BTW, I do actually like the idea of an ASF project for blogging. As a developer for Xindice I would certainly love to see such a thing exist because it's a logical use of the tech and would show things off pretty well. Unfortunately, I "use" Radio as a tool because it makes me productive and going to a new and less mature system will destroy that productivity. A basic blogging tool won't be enough to get me to switch, that's what I used before Radio and I have no desire to go back. Yep, definitely a provocative idea. :-) Kimbro Staken XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
