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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Carbon on Sunday 03/Jun/2001, @23:09

>>Even with the speed decrements, that will mean very little in a couple years as optimizations improve and hardware becomes much cheaper and faster.

>Sounds like what they said about java. Your wrong here its a bad idea.

Actually, you're probably right about that. What about diversion? I.e. both projects become more specialized toward a particular purpose. Perhaps GNOME will move more toward embedded devices and KDE more towards generalized PC usage, or GNOME in the office and KDE at home.

This happened, imho, in a way with emacs and vim : both have a heavy following, and both are in the general catagory of 'text editors', and one could argue convincingly about either being the best. But lately (at least as I have observed) vim seems to be used more for web development, and emacs for compiled languages, although either can be used for the other one.

>>we aren't in competition!

>Huh? Hello Mcfly

No really. We aren't in competition! Why should we be? We aren't competing over profits, we both have similar goals and similar motivations, and there is no 'war' because the success of one does not mean the other will die.

This is because the sucess of any Open Source bazaar-style project is determined entirely on how much developers are interested in it.

GNOME is not dependant on commercial money right now in the same way KDE is not dependant on commercial money right now : any developer of either project would probably be working on it anyways even if they weren't being paid, money just speeds up the process.

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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Craig on Monday 04/Jun/2001, @10:05

Without VC gnome would'nt have Nautalus or Redcarpet or Evolution. Enough said.

Craig

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Re: Speed? And a (good) suggestion for themes
by Carbon on Monday 04/Jun/2001, @23:11

No, not enough said. These programs are pretty core progs, being (i believe) in order a browser/fileman, an installer, and a groupware suite, but just because they were developed as commercial interest doesn't mean they or something similar would never exist.

I suppose that had kivio not existed, it would have been impossible for kde to ever have a diagramming app and python bindings? Of course not, kivio's help merely speeded up the process.

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