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Re: Long live Kommander !
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 26/Feb/2008, @01:53

And no mention of whatever other text may have been botched. ;-) Hey, I like praise, but I'm blushing here. Kommander has been evolutionairy in what it can do. For KDE4 my plan is to make it a complete application development plaform with the obvious limits that it's not a good choice for a graphics tool or office program.

Have you tried the new features? It really does have a more mature feel. I'm working on an sqlite3 based snippet manager but I'm thinking I should use a shell interface so as not to require the database plugin.

Anyway I don't think we deserve as much praise as core developers, but I do want to empower the average person. After all my years with free software I've seen projects die, a good many of them. We like to think that if the source code is out there anyone can take them over... It ignores the fact that only a fraction of a percent of users ever develop anything. To truly realize the theoretical ideals of "open source" we have to empower more users to develop. Unfortunately the big problem is nobody can agree on languages and tools. It's probably not even possible for one person to have a well researched unbiased opinion so supposedly rational programmers often find they have little more than dogma about alternatives.

Historically great civilizations have been the result of societies opening up to different cultures and collecting the best and the brightest. If I can leverage more C++ developers and more developers from the world of Kommander users and scripting it is possible to make future versions of Kommander dramatically better. Getting from here to there is way more challenging than you can imagine. Many times selling a new idea has more to do with sales skills than how good the idea is. History is repleat with this paradox, but I'm tenacious and persuasive. Let's hope things go well.

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