You're confusing stand-alone applications and extensions to the core desktop. An easy mistake to make. ----- Original Message ----- > > Le Dim 3 novembre 2013 19:34, drago01 a écrit : > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > >> since it is a free operating system it does not need to be commerical > >> successfull and so it needs to satisfy it's *existing* and potential > >> userbase > >> but not obsessive attrative for *everybody* > > > > > > No. If you loose to the competion you become irrelevant which means > > less / no support from third parties, less (new) contributors etc etc. > > The competition worked hard at API stability. Even abandoned experiments > like silverlight are going to work identically for years in new os > versions. > > GNOME decided to break it all the time (can't even get extensions work > from one gnome-shell version to the next one and no gracefully disabling > is still functional breakage). > > And thus it 'lost to the competition'. No amount of indirection and > sandboxing is going to hide the utter lack of regard for stability of our > core desktop project > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
