Am 18.02.2013 22:28, schrieb jonc: > On 02/18/2013 04:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> What, exactly, is the connection in FOSS that is supposed to make developers care what users think? >> because if they to not bother what users think they are also >> free to develop THEIR pet and state that it is only THEIR pet > > Seems to me that's pretty much what happens fine - but it is not fair to build a large user base over years and then thow all away and explain them "that is how you have to work from now on" GNOMe itself does not interest me but the geberal attitude of incompatible replacmenets it is tecnical no problem to re-write a codebase from scratch to make it cleaner, faster, securer without throw any user-interface (shell as also GUI) away yes, it may be more work and needs more thinking to implement known workflows with a new codebase, it may take longer, but the overall quality may also be better because you recgonzize diesgn mistakes in the new code if you can't provide known behavior with it it is only the easier way to throw all away but it leads not to more stable and future promising by nature
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