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Why Open Source Doesn't Interoperate
bergie writes "There is an interesting article on Advogato on why it is so difficult for Open Source projects to interoperate or support common standards. Often cultural differences between projects, egoes, and many other issues stand in the way. The article outlines some practical ways for improving the situation, based on experiences from OSCOM efforts to get support WebDAV, SlideML and other standards into Open Source CMSs. Examples of successful interop projects include freedesktop.org, the cooperative effort between GNOME and KDE."
RMS is the reason! I GNU it all along!
You'd think if geeks couldn't "interoperate" with girls, at least they would be able to interoperate with other geeks on their projects.
*ducks*
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
So you're telling me that all those managers have actually been useful over the years?
:)
some sort of functional and or design specification
That just about covers some of the best stuff I've been given to work with
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
No, it's because there are 6.02 x 10^23 developers working on the system at any one time.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
My only reply is this: if you want to be ignorant about something, be ignorant, but don't complain that everyone else is making things too hard. Damn - and I thought I was lazy. If you want something easy to use, buy a Mac (hell, buy a Mac either way - they rock!). Oh wait - on a Mac you'd have to click OK twice. No, please, don't use up your last brain cell. Go back to watching TV for your latest fad updates.
Great Article my ARSE! He is not a geek. He is barely a man.
For the love of all that is good, please mod the parent down into oblivion. It's bad enough someone this stupid is allowed to breathe up our air, let alone post this bullshit...