Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 16 Jul 2006, at 17:57, Lluis Sanchez wrote:

> It's not so important which applications do gnome include, since  
> distros
> can take this decision, depending on the specific target of the  
> distro.

Up to a point... although a distro's choice of application is also  
somewhat influenced by the level of support they can expect from its  
community and its maintainers, because distros aren't usually in a  
position to fix things in every app themselves.  Since applications  
that are included in the core GNOME desktop are known to be well- 
maintained, widely-translated, and released on a regular schedule, it  
can certainly be more desirable for a distro to include a core GNOME  
app than an alternative, especially if it's one for which their users  
are paying for support.

(Which isn't to say that non-core apps can't be well-maintained,  
widely-translated and released on a regular schedule too, of course,  
but there can certainly be less incentive for that to happen.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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