Re: focus! (was Re: Focusing on innovation re: mono, python et al)

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <mailinglist randomink org>]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> If that happened, the platform developers would likely have less 
> interaction with application developers on mailing lists like this one. 
> So you'd be more likely to end up like the W3C's HTML Working Group has 
> with XHTML 2.0 -- spending huge amounts of time producing an extremely 
> elegant platform that's useless for real-world applications.

Why would that happen in the event GNOME decides to remould itself from
being a kick-ass *desktop* to being a coherent platform ?

:Sankarshan


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