OZ>> FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Why can't the dumbwits, who run OZ>> those distributions and borrow ideas from each other, unify OZ>> their efforts and create The One True and Giant Distribution OZ>> (TM, under penalty of anti-blasphamy laws)?
You seem to be ironic on that, but in fact I think it's a serious issue. The amount of work and time wasted in parallel projects doing the same things ten times is tremendous, and it's a shame that so much of people's time and work is spent on things that were already done ten times - even if in a slightly different way (by the way, one of the issues the Open Source was called to achieve is exactly this - reduce the amount of work duplication and raise the code reuse via source code sharing). But seems that it's how the evolution works, and until the projects live in purely Darwinian evolutional space without any guiding, organising and cooperation-driving force, it's going to be this way. RedHat is trying to be such a force - I don't know if there would be any good out of it, but it's interesting to see they are trying. OZ>> And on the other hand, in a world which accepts four separate OZ>> ways of building an Unix-like system, isn't it too much to OZ>> expect it to accept two ways of building desktop modules? Which brings us eight ways to build a Unix system. Don't you see combinatorical explosion coming? It may seem (or even be) good for you - so many ways to do things - but for RedHat and other developers it means supporting (meaning, developing for, testing on, documenting, etc.) all these things - with very few common APIs to base on. What RH is trying to do is to establish as large common base as possible - and I can fully understand that. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
