First a disclaimer: I program for GNOME and am a Helix Code employee. I understand that this newsitem is more about the new KDE beta than the KDE-GNOME relationship, yet I have to address some of the concerns regarding a "war" between these two projects (as voiced in many comments here).
The article linked to on the front page was obnoxious, and I feel personally attacked, not for my code's merits, but just on "general principle", because I happen to code for GNOME. I, as many other developers want to be left alone by such rabble-rousers. I just want to do my thing.
I've never attacked anyone on the basis of doing the KDE project - on the other hand, we're all making good progress, and I believe that one borrows ideas from the other on a regular basis. The "inefficiency" of having two projects with such overlap is blown out of proportions by many comments here. They merely represent two different approaches to a problem, with two different solution sets. No one side has all the best solutions.
Here are links to the publicity/news pages on both sides of the camp, so you can compare the badmouthing-article counts:
Slashdot Mirror
The article linked to on the front page was obnoxious, and I feel personally attacked, not for my code's merits, but just on "general principle", because I happen to code for GNOME. I, as many other developers want to be left alone by such rabble-rousers. I just want to do my thing.
I've never attacked anyone on the basis of doing the KDE project - on the other hand, we're all making good progress, and I believe that one borrows ideas from the other on a regular basis. The "inefficiency" of having two projects with such overlap is blown out of proportions by many comments here. They merely represent two different approaches to a problem, with two different solution sets. No one side has all the best solutions.
Here are links to the publicity/news pages on both sides of the camp, so you can compare the badmouthing-article counts:
KDE news, GNOME news.
They speak for themselves. Thanks for your attention and stuff.