Re: Some ideas

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh bitstream net>]

I just want to say that we need to strike a balance between competition and 
cooperation.  Competition is a good thing...it keeps people on their feet 
and in the end it's good for the user which is all of us even (especially?) 
the developers.  I have a website that I've been forced to improve over and 
over because of competition.

The only thing I'm worried about is that commercial application vendors 
will come in and start splitting themselves up amongst the widget 
sets.  Adobe does Photoshop using GTK+ (wouldn't that be kind of ironic?) 
then Lotus uses QT to do 123 then Intuit does Quicken with GTK+ 
etc...  This is all conjecture of course but it could become annoying.

>I think this whole KDE vs. GNOME thing sucks, it would be GREAT if both
>projects could be alot more cooperative, share ideas, maybe even one day
>(dare i say it ?) merge. Both projects want the same thing: the best desktop
>available; and everyone is always talking about how every _work together_ in
>the Open Source world...