[KLUG Members] Re: Desktop projects -- WAS: exim? postfix? why not?

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:09, Adam Williams wrote:
> So if we create a third desktop environment project would that spur on=20
> both GNOME and KDE to new heights?  It would be an intersting study to se=
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> how many popular and sustained projects each niche can support.  I suspec=
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> the further back-and-up the chain (away from the user) you move, the more=
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> diversity is sustainable.  Anyone have any URLs about anything like this?

Who says there aren't already?!?!?!

E.g., XFCE is a CDE-like environment that can support GNOME components,
but has its own as well.  There are several others, just less popular.=20
And I'm not just talking "window managers-only" either.

Again, basic social tendences here.  Whenever you have choice, the
majority people will choose (aka "standardize") on 2-3.  That's what has
happened with GNOME and KDE.

Remember, unlike commercial software, _no_one_ is in a position to
dictate what the Linux community does.  Only its developers decide what
is written, and its users decide what is popular.  A pure, unadulterated
software development _and _release_ model.

> On a very slow day, over a hundred.  If a new worm is hatched, then we ge=
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> smashed hard.  It is just a hazard of our industry, most shops are run=20
> with no IT staff at all, predominately Win32 PC's connected dirtectly to=20
> the internet and running Outlook.

And they deserve what they get.

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