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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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