On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote: > >http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/12/linus_on_source.html > > Does the above mean that developers should be encouraged to develop > and contribute anything that they want, but there still remains a > legitimate value, and strategic importance, to: > > - identify the "core" pieces that most people will want/need for a > typical environment > > - make it possible *for those who wish* to be able to "fall back" to > a consistent UI (hopefully not boring) > AND > > - accept all of the "crazy developer" stuff around the edges Yep, that's why I always liked to look at Syan's stuff ;-)
> but be > able to *identify* it as for-the-moment non-core, and to *track* it > and, when it makes sense, to *incorporate* some of these pieces in as > "variant distros"? of GNUmed, if not as core > > (I think we already do this, at least to some extent, dunno if this > part has to be more clearly architected or at least communicated) Jim sums it up, as usual :-) The reason for posting the link was that I pretty much agree on how Linus thinks things happen and I wanted to add a more prominent voice to the choir :-o Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
