Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:08:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209181004510.44656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wTzeUmASd_UCKwQ7BUAKnz6_qjUdDAVe_8XDFf3aaOcqQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB%2BfO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com> <63507.1347905101@critter.freebsd.dk> <CAGsORuAzXzb1XURUbOhMEHAvf581swpFqUxSUrQXLPamii4Mzw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wTzeUmASd_UCKwQ7BUAKnz6_qjUdDAVe_8XDFf3aaOcqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> To be succinct: this is not OSX/Windows. True Unix and Unix clones can > be decoupled from a desktop environment enough that forcing everyone > to have one choice for desktop user experience doesn't make sense, and > the fact that there isn't a common GUI development toolkit (GTK, QT, > etc) encourages fragmentation of effort further (I think it's called > the Bazaar model of development :P). That's all true. But do anyone understand why there is still so much pressure for every open source OS and specifically *BSD on "default desktop environment" or similar ideas? Such a pressure exist for 20 years at least, and - between other results - started demise of linux as trusty high performance system. Why people still not learned from faults and keep harming good open source projects that way?
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