Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:57 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:This course of action will create a time when GNOME goes the way of propriortary UNIX: Tru64, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX... imagine a world with Novell Desktop, Topaz, Java Desktop, the Hatrack Environment: all competing products... where is GNOME?not if the changes are not kept proprietary and sent upstream sooner or later.
perhaps but the real question is why isn't this a branch in CVS? Why is there a need for clandestine development?
Take Nautius-search as an example, Novell did this right by having a branch which the maintainers could see, change and adapt. The result was a hugely successful merge.
Also Davyd is right to a point - remember how NT swept aside Unix because they would not unite?
Lets not repeat history - united we stand (and succeed), divided we fall! -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/