Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:12:41 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: fredrik@speechcraft.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010526111241R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105261154280.115-100000@molly.telia.com> References: <20010525183157B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105261154280.115-100000@molly.telia.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
From: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:08:32 +0000 (/etc/localtime) > However, Apple isn't really a part of the open-source community, and it is Really? I know a lot of Darwin / OpenPlay / NetSprocket / CDSA folks who would vehemently disagree with you there! See publicsource.apple.com and also the Apple Public Source License (APSL). > the attitude in the community that I'm concerned about. There is a general > atmosphere of resignation (call it "consolidation" if you will). I might Well, experience typically shows that the only time people start feeling "resigned" about not capturing a market segment is when they have not, in fact, captured it and there don't seem to be very many people doing anything about it. At that point, you have two groups of people emerge: Those who wring their hands about the fact that nobody's doing anything about it and those who actually pitch in and start doing something about it. The KDE and Gnome projects were started by the latter sorts of people and, as far as I can see, the former group are like a garnish - they're highly visible but they don't actually affect the outcome of things either way. Without people actually diving in and addressing the issues in a far more tangible way, you just get a lot of anguished handwaving for months and months but nothing else. Which category do you fall into? :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010526111241R.jkh>