Or if they dropped their akward development cycle, the gnomes could rejoice as various Gnome modules could be upgraded such that the simple stuff could be brought out in a few days or weeks.
Mind you it took forever for Linux to realise that the even/odd stable/unstable was a bad way to go, I would imagine it would take Gnome developers a fair while as well.
Sorry, waiting 6 months for better utilizing X.org is just plain silly.
that competition is the driving force. Considering there really isn't money to be made. I believe both would still improve just fine, actually with larger communities due to the absence of the other, one would progress faster.
It's amusing, having programmed numerous algorithms, I find it hard to recall all that many examples where competition ended up solving a problem, usually it was the cooperation of a variety of parts.
I stronly disagree with your statements...
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BSD is the antithesis of competition. LGPL is the anti-competition, tis the ultimate of truces.
Look at the BSDs, their greatness is achieved through entities (the groups) pursuing goals which may produce overlap work. But they SHARE, with little ego for the most part.
If you think about it, it's not competition that drives them, it's cooperation and out right, striving, for the betterment of all that they can effect and themselves. There are more things, but currently, at least to my limited ability to express myself, remain ineffable.
Additionally, if not tangentially, how many different versions of Linux do we have, not distros or backported kernels for some of those distros, but actual, different kernels? Why is Linus' Linux basically the main one?
there we multiple flavours of Linux, kinda like BSD. A fork would be good. Not to mention we might start seeing more rapid development, and divergent philosophies might start producing more interesting sub-systems which could be interchanged. I suppose this happens to an extent, something more mainstream would be nice.
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http://www.drjava.de/superversion/ Uses change sets, and it seems rather stable and friendly.
Or if they dropped their akward development cycle, the gnomes could rejoice as various Gnome modules could be upgraded such that the simple stuff could be brought out in a few days or weeks. Mind you it took forever for Linux to realise that the even/odd stable/unstable was a bad way to go, I would imagine it would take Gnome developers a fair while as well. Sorry, waiting 6 months for better utilizing X.org is just plain silly.
that competition is the driving force. Considering there really isn't money to be made. I believe both would still improve just fine, actually with larger communities due to the absence of the other, one would progress faster. It's amusing, having programmed numerous algorithms, I find it hard to recall all that many examples where competition ended up solving a problem, usually it was the cooperation of a variety of parts.
BSD is the antithesis of competition. LGPL is the anti-competition, tis the ultimate of truces. Look at the BSDs, their greatness is achieved through entities (the groups) pursuing goals which may produce overlap work. But they SHARE, with little ego for the most part. If you think about it, it's not competition that drives them, it's cooperation and out right, striving, for the betterment of all that they can effect and themselves. There are more things, but currently, at least to my limited ability to express myself, remain ineffable. Additionally, if not tangentially, how many different versions of Linux do we have, not distros or backported kernels for some of those distros, but actual, different kernels? Why is Linus' Linux basically the main one?
there we multiple flavours of Linux, kinda like BSD. A fork would be good. Not to mention we might start seeing more rapid development, and divergent philosophies might start producing more interesting sub-systems which could be interchanged. I suppose this happens to an extent, something more mainstream would be nice.