On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kellerman Rivero Suarez wrote:Yes, it's great that Linux allows people to create multiple ways of
> You Right, but in OSS exists multiple browsers, multiple desktop
> managers, multiple media players, and stop count! In this case, I love
> gedit, but is more matter of taste. I think so.
>
painting a shed, but that doesn't mean it is always a good thing.
OSS is not unique in providing multiple of a XYZ app. Commercial
software has always provided multiple of XYZ apps and has that been a
good thing? For instance: I'm sure you can find multiple music players
for Android phones in the Google store, but does that mean it is a good
thing? There comes a time when a software developer needs to swallow
their pride and work together with another human being to create a
better software instead of forking. It is rare for a fork to succeed and
usually, only succeeds if upstream dies/is dying so in other words the
fork becomes the new upstream and you don't really see it as a fork any
more.
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While gedit is nice, it is a GTK+ app. Do we actually have a decent selection of open source text editors for the GNUStep environment? As far as I know, we don't. TextMate would target a different group of people, those who use the NeXTSTEP/GNUStep environment.
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