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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit
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Matthew Palmer |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit |
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Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:08:28 +1100 |
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:53:40PM -0600, Mike Partin wrote:
> Apologies, I meant this to go to the list.
> >
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:06, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> > I don't think having n wrappers in people's favorite scripting languages
> > makes much sense. I would like one binary that I can easily install on
> > any kind of system, without being root, and without having to install
> > tons* of library-files as well.
> >
> > I also think the use of wrappers will fragment the community, it is
> > already quite common to have a newbie user ask something like:
>
> Kind of like the choice of window managers or editors? Come on man, this
> argument smacks of the Microsoft Mentality(tm). It's the abundance of
> choice that makes the open source community what it is. "I don't like
> the tool you use, but this one works great for me." It's all about
> choice.
But it still fragments the community. How many "XWindows people" are there
out there, as opposed to WindowMaker, KDE, GNOME, Blackbox, vtwm (etc etc)
people? Most people identify themselves with a particular window manager.
Similarly, with the diversity of tla wrappers, people will start identifying
themselves with a particular wrapper that they use. So you'll have xlta
people, and fai people, and so on.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does need to be realised that
it's happening, and note taken of the possible negative effects.
- Matt
--
"The day when Hurd is so common that we want to emulate its braindamages is
not going to be in my life-time, I suspect."
-- Linus Torvalds
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- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, Miles Bader, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, Thomas Lord, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, Stig Brautaset, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/11/03
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: community spirit, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/11/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: community spirit, Mike Partin, 2004/11/01
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit,
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