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El Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:02:04 -0400 Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com> esc=
ribi=F3:

> > Yes. This is called "being realistic".
> >
>=20
> What exactly is realistic about that? There's nothing wrong with=20
> reinventing the wheel if only works perfectly on one type of car. It=20
> doesn't sound like it was a very good wheel in the first place if=20
> that's the case.

Well, it's "being realistic" in the sense "you can't rewrite a entire deskt=
op
software in two days". Gnome and KDE have been working for _years_ and they=
're
very ahead of anything else you can find in the OSS world (GPL or BSD).

Nothing stops you writing a different desktop platform; in the same way
nobody stops you rewriting gcc. (But guess why nobody is rewriting gcc)