Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 23:28:29 +0200 From: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= <aradorlinux@yahoo.es> To: Randi Harper <sektie@freebsdgirl.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <DECA7DCE-DE51-11D7-8013-000393D46EC6@freebsdgirl.com> References: <20030903224346.4bbbf208.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> <DECA7DCE-DE51-11D7-8013-000393D46EC6@freebsdgirl.com>
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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)
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