On 2013-12-20 17:09:43 -0600 Doc O'Leary <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Gregory can put on his GNUstep Maintainer hat and say 'we should implement >> UIKit', but it has no effect unless someone actually does the work. >> Implementing UIKit is more work than one person can do by themselves. > > Again with the stupid rush to implement things . . .
Remember that, in general, write free software is a hobby. Just to see what happens. > > Here's a radical idea: why not actually evaluate the goal first? Before > throwing people at the problem, figure out what good reason there was (if > any) for Apple to go UIKit for mobile development instead of just expanding > the AppKit API. Perhaps the right thing to do for GNUstep doesn't involve > *any* coders. > >> Talk on a mailing list is cheap. > > And yet so much more valuable than aimless code. > "More valuable" is subjective. >> If you're complaining that no one else is, then you're not contributing >> anything useful. > > Nonsense. Only a fool thinks that more monkeys sitting at typewriters is the > way to get better books. If you sincerely don't see the point of debating > the correctness of an approach, my opinion of FreeBSD is greatly reduced. > >> Open source projects are not created for users, they're created for >> contributors. > > More rubbish. Or, rather, incredibly sad if true. I mean, who exactly are > you being "open" to if you're all being that selfishly insular? Is this > seriously the thinking behind FreeBSD? Contribute to a free software project isn't a job is, in general, for fun. > >> Contributors may be ones who donate code, artwork, documentation, or money. > > If that's the direction GNUstep chooses to go, that is not a cult I want to > be part of *ever*. I take too much joy in seeing regular people benefit from > my work. > >> If you want to set an agenda for ANY open source project, you need to >> contribu > > Whereas I would start with having, you know, a smart agenda in the first > place. I continue to be amazed by the lack of scientific thinking being > expressed by people I would assume are trained computer scientists. > No all people here are scientists. That isn't a requisite to write free software. People have a lot of different reasons to write software. And even being scientists, that doesn't means all will be agree with same ideas. Germán. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
