Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: C++ in the Linux kernel. | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:16:45 -0500 |
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-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 6:51 AM Subject: Re: C++ in the Linux kernel.
>Anthony Barbachan wrote: > >> Keep this age old piece of military wisdom in mind, one of the best ways to >> destroy your enemy is to divide and conquer him. Look at the battle between >> KDE and GNOME; in the end it has just delayed the adoption of a standard >> advanced Windowing system. This could have been done six months ago; in the > >Be cautious when applying military wisdom to the civil world. The >civilized >world is often too complex for the military mind 8-) > >Another theory is that fierce technical competition between gnome and >KDE >caused them to be much more advanced than either would have been without >the competition of the other. >
Sure competition helped alot, but in the end the real competition was Windows/MacOS/XWin/etc. A merging of the best from both efforts may have been a better outcome. As is both have some features that would have been very useful in the other.
>The goal is to make them as interoperable as practically possible, >not to decide for one or the other. > >Tom >
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