Christian Schaller wrote:
The PRD avoids these questions by design. To often open source
discussions
end up being discussions about the merits of the means as opposed to the
actual goals.
Well, I disagree about the basic decision of whether we want a standard
desktop UI or something, uh, "different", being only "about the merits of
the means".
It should be a sobering notion that for all the years when the
community
discussed if the a successful desktop should be implemented in C or C++ we
ended up having our collective thunder stolen by a desktop written in
Objective-C.
That really didn't have anything to do with the merits of Objective C, or
even of the desktop, but only with marketing. If Objective C were that
great, we'd all be using GNUstep.
Kevin Kofler