GTK Ticked-Off

[Collins Richey]

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On 07 Sep 2003 11:28:22 -0400
burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:20, Collins Richey wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe you should widen your field of vision. 
> 
> The problem is, my field of vision *is* much wider - wider than OS
> software. This really is one of the major limitations to the
> acceptance of open source solutions by leading system integrators and
> IT service companies. Thus the reason for my rant.
> 
> Things like this are invariably considered fairly serious problems in
> product selection/due diligence evaluations for a client's
> architecture. It makes it harder to sell Linux and common Linux
> applications.
> 
> > Almost everything in the
> > open software arena is done this way - glibc, kernel, qt, kde,
> > gnome. 
>
> For Linux to be accepted across the board, major issues such as this
> need to be addressed. It's OK for small boutique software offerings.
> But if Linux wants to play seriously at the enterprise level, there is
> a certain amount of discipline that will have to be adopted by the
> community.
> 

Exactly.  No arguments here.  I've been aware of and pained by this for
a long time.  To my knowledge, none of the principal players in the open
software arena even have a clue that this is a problem.  Each new
release starts over with an incompatible API, and that's (sadly) just
the way it is.

I was only curious why you had singled out GTK, since this is such a
common practice.  M$ has an excuse for this: they want to drink new
blood at new prices as often as possible; open software folks should be
ashamed.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.