Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Robert Wilderspin
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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On 29 Sep 1998 19:14:09 GMT, dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu (Dave Blake )
wrote:

>In the examples above, some of the coders working on drag and
>drop in GNOME are already paid GPL programmers working for Redhat.
>The reason is that 1) it is good marketing and 2) there is potential
>for commercial support of the product, and software consulting
>based on the product.
>
>The programmer has to be creating something useful to a large
>number of people for it to work for him.

The problem with that is that there are too many low-profile jobs that
simply won't attract sponsorship.  Why would a company want to pay
someone to work solely on the IDE drivers?  They work well enough
already, so it would be a "waste of money" to get someone to improve
them.  These tasks have to be left to people willing to work on them
voluntarily.

Companies will pay for all of the major improvements and additions,
and that's all well and good, but they won't pay for simple tweaks
that a lot of people currently do.

Rob Wilderspin
--
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From: antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk (Robert Wilderspin)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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