(Ted Harding) wrote:
The alternative, as Alex says and as has been forcefully said in other places, is "UNIX Wars" all over again. This is what marginalised UNIX for many major software ISVs; the ones that stayed in were mainly those that
It also brings to mind the computer wars of 1978-1981. There were tons of little boxes out there, led by Apple and the Trash80, but IBM fairly well standardized the hardware. Now we are living with the outdated architechture. Then the OS wars between DesqView, Windows , OS/2, Gym and a couple of others. In each war the best designed product didn't win, only the best marketed one (or the vendor using the least scrupples). Linux has avoided the "Unix Wars" by ignoring those that would rekindle the flames. Personally, I like the independence the Linux allows. Can you imagine if the Qt toolkit was declared the standard and Xwindows programs written without it were shunned? Confine yourself to KDE for the next 10-15 years? Why? Let freedom ring, let inovation flourish. There will be enought "standardization" by virtue of the number of packages sold, but each should allow some place in their distro for wiggle room so improvements can burst out. Jerry - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>