If only i had the link of www.salon.com to prove my point :-(
Coming to the article i really liked what the following says:
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There's this wonderful outpouring of creativity in the open-source world," Lanier said. *"So what do they make -- another version of Unix?"* Jef Raskin jumped in. *"And what do they put on top of it? Another Windows!"*
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(Emphasis Mine). This is something that i had discussed with Indra and SM sometime back. I am not against KDE or GNOME or something else - but a comment by one of my students who had taken the knoppix cd from me says it all - "Windows i to - ektu bhalo dekhte"
Perhaps it is time to take stock of FLOSS and develop a new paradigm...
Regards
RVK
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Salon has published a very interesting article called "Why software still stinks". It is a report from a panel discussions amongst some of the gurus and top innovators in programming.
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2004/03/19/programmers_at_work/index.html
Quote from the article:
His comment underscored something that's frequently misunderstood about
the open-source approach, which is often wrongly stereotyped as loopily
communal and out-of-touch with business reality. There's an essential
pragmatism to the notion that programmers work best when they can share,
and learn from, one another's work. After all, every other field of
human endeavor works that way.
Bricklin sent waves of laughter through the auditorium by reading a
passage from Lammers' interview with Bill Gates in which the young
Microsoft founder explained that his work on different versions of
Microsoft's BASIC compiler was shaped by looking at how other
programmers had gone about the same task. Gates went on to say that
young programmers don't need computer science degrees: "The best way to
prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other
people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the
Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating
systems."
Bricklin finished reading Gates' words and announced, with an impish
smile, "This is where Gates and [Richard] Stallman agree!"
-enjoy- sdg
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