>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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