Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Rick ] on Tuesday 02 May 2006 13:20 \__
>
> > On Mon, 01 May 2006 23:07:29 -0700, John Bailo wrote:
> >
> >> Au79 wrote:
> >>
> >>> IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
> >>>
> >>> <http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb050206-story02.html>
> >>>
> >>> The Desktop Linux Summit was underway in San Diego, California, last
> >>> week, and the leaders of the Linux community as well as the Free
> >>> Standards Group were on ...
> >>
> >> Wow. That's the sad thing about open source, it's got all the baggage of
> >> these type of people trying to create "free standards" and such.
> >>
> >
> > <sarcasm> Yeah, Bailo, that's right... having standards that can be
> > counted on, and freedom to do different things is a bad idea. </sarcasm>
>
> Freedom should be obstructed or discourged at one level or another
> nonetheless. When forking becomes excessive (because each developer wants to
> leave his/her mark), it becomes damaging to the whole -- GNU/Linux. There
> should be some guidelines that avoid confusion and lack of uniformity.
> Communication is all it takes. GNOME/KDE and others have been doing that
> recently, as well.
>
> Just my opinion
I agree. As the linked-to article mentions, numerous forks did UNIX no
good at all. It's A Good Thing that the Linux developers are addressing
the point.
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