Messages in this thread | | | From | "ismail (cartman) donmez" <> | Subject | Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:13:41 +0300 |
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On Thursday 19 June 2003 19:59, Larry McVoy wrote: > These discussions always make me wonder if the open source crowd is ever > going to realize it's reasonable to be friendly with commercial companies. > Troll Tech is being nice. They have a nice product, they've created a > business model that let's you have the product for free and ensures that > they will be in business to support that product. That's a Good Thing, > you benefit from that. TT is just great. If all commercial companies are like that. Noone could object commercialism in OSS. [1] GTK+ people are being cheap and go blame Qt for being GPL. Now TT puts a great product there with great help system for free so I would better shut up or put up.
> KDE is better but not better than Microsoft. Why? > Because it takes a lot of effort to do all the grunt work and if that > grunt work is behind the scenes in things like application to application > communication, there is less incentive for people to work on it. The last > Gnome interview I read was all about the icons. Icons are great if the > underlying system works well. Otherwise they are just eye candy and > suck people in for a while and then they give up.
Gnome is great for icons yeah. But KDE ( with -devs -apps ) are great. Not ready for %90 of desktop out there but getting there. I suggest Gnome people stop whining about Qt but creating a usable GTK+ file dialog at least.
[1] : Its nice of BitKeeper to provide CVS and SVN gateways. People should appreciate it.
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