On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:34:41PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > Any thoughts? While the kernel goes on under Linus' (prudent and often > wise) direction, are things really this bad elsewhere in the FLOSS > world? Is it just "Linux" projects that act this way? All this talk by > developers of "brand" is just bizarre. The fact that they have any > usership at all is thanks to other brands (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, or > just "Linux"). I'm not referring to just Gnome here. Seems like a lot > of projects lately have devs who are hell-bent on heading down their own > path despite what people who actually use their software would think or > want. Makes me really sad because Linux still has a lot of potential > and I've enjoyed using it over the years because it could be made to be > a useful tool to serve my needs.
Gnome is definitely plagued by a self-destructive attitude, but I don't see this as a sign of any major problems in the FLOSS world. Are there any other particular examples that are representative of a wide-ranging problem? -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
