On Wednesday 17 October 2007 22:25, Kamaleshwar Morjal [कमलेश्वर मोरजाल] wrote: > Poor old Inkscape ignited the flame of this intellectual war of two > _worlds_ (Platforms); that is now going on a roller coaster ride > and in some time, the warriors would totally forget why the war > started but still keep fighting! :D
The ones who think about this or that missing feature are the ones who keep missing the big picture, which is the nxt point u raise > Ahem, coming to the point, shouldn't we rather channelise our > energies towards making *all* these prominent platforms work > together seamlessly, at least pointing to ways to achieve that > objective? Welcome to the real world my friend. That is exactly what many foss projects try to do - with most resources deliberately debarred for their use. Things like patented standards, NDAs for hardware that will expose coders to lawsuits for disclosing patented technology, software patents, totally rubbish prior art patent - there is one filed recently against RH and Novell for some sort of windowing system, even though simliar prior art existed since 79 8 yrs earlier than the patent filing date of 87. The shenanigans of M$ even when compelled by courts to disclose prtocols and their vile stance on doc formats are all too well known except to the idiots who keep making statements like "xyz is not ready for use" . There are even more complex issues about copyright laws, patents and ip. these impact foss projects (and individuals) greatly because of the nature of public contributions, distribution and use. And they are all totally and absolutely dependent on the one point everyone loves to hate - freedom. what's the use of freedom when you cant do this or that shows the utter lack of understanding the very basis of ones existence. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
