On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 20:58:02 Thiago Macieira wrote: > frameworks (qt-based), applications and workspace, that sounds pretty > muchwhat the KDE Platform is. What are you excluding in your definition?
indeed; Ossi's email demonstrates an utter lack of understanding on his part as to what kdelibs is. he confuses it with trying to create an operating system user land stack as opposed to a set of application development tools which integrate with the OS and its userland. we target more than just Linux and we do not control all (or even most) of the Linux OS space. it's a little megalomaniacal to think we can or should and still be able to develop effective applications and solutions for our users. division of labour is pretty important in achieving that, particularly as F/OSS does not particularly have a huge amount of resources that we can afford to waste on duplication without serious benefit arrising from it. imho in a more perfect world, the current efforts from the GNOME community would concentrate almost exclusively on the kind of middleware that they have shown an interest and resource readiness for and we'd concentrate almost exclusively on portable application libraries, applications and workspaces. the line of cooperation and collaboration would be far clearer, our (KDE and GNOME's) resources much more efficiently used and our user and developer stories for F/OSS would be so much clearer. those who continue to cling to some mythical struggle over control of middleware when we are a portable, application-focused community are out of touch with reality. (and i would say similarly for those dealing with the complimentary issue ..) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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