Re: Design by Community

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

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!

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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