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Comment on No fglrx for Jaunty? by sbobet

sbobet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:40:00 +0000

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Comment on AR shadowmapping demo by Hoshang

Hoshang — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:57:00 +0000

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Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Nicolay Doytchev

Nicolay Doytchev — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:15:00 +0000

Absolutely the case. And the biggest deal of all are GObject and Vala. There are so many good reasons why one would go with C++ over making another language that it’s not even funny…

In fact I am glad that Ubuntu chose to use Qt for Unity 2D as it is an ultra-mature and written in proper language toolkit.

Comment on Intruducing Teatime by Captain Awesome

Captain Awesome — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Love it – just one thing. It doesn’t seem to accept times higher than 59 minutes!

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Pawlo

Pawlo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:20:00 +0000

You could also add MSOOXML to the list. When KDE and FSF openly said ODF is way to go, gnome foundation didn’t say a thing, but some people from gnome were leaning toward MS ugly format. I think the main culprit of gnome suffering from NIH is Icaza. He still has quite big influence on gnome and he’s working for MS. It’s in their interests to divide and conquer.

I’m very happy such systems like Kubuntu and Ubuntu exist. They’re very user friendly which cannot be said about Fedora and gnome shell.

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Pawlo

Pawlo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:15:00 +0000

@Felipe Contreras

Linus was talking about kernel programming and not about desktop environments. Don’t you think it’s strange that Linus preferred KDE over gnome?

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:14:00 +0000

in this post he explains the shortcomings of upstart. And he is most certainly right about that. But my point was that he should have built upon upstart instead of starting from scratch.
Now Lennart would probably respond that it would be too difficult to add the new features, but the recent updates to upstart which actually add lots of systemd features to it prove this wrong. The bottom line is maybe the collaborating with others is indeed harder than working on your own. But thats plain NIH.

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:10:00 +0000

do you refer to this post of Linus? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918
If so most of his arguments can be as well applied to Vala – in this regard it rather supports my point

But seriously, Linus might be right that plain C is more efficient where performance is the primary goal. But for GUI applications performance is not the primary goal, as they mainly consist of glue code to different libraries.
And for a open source project with limited resources, the expressiveness of the language is also important – there is a reason why alomst everything in gnome is being rewritten in Vala now..

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Felipe Contreras

Felipe Contreras — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:32:00 +0000

You lost me when you pushed C++ forward. Linus Torvalds has explained very well the reasons why C++ sucks. It might suit your needs, but there’s a lot of people who think otherwise.

Comment on GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease by Lucas

Lucas — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:15:00 +0000

Lennart has exposed the reasons why systemd was developed. It’s definitely not NIH syndrome:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

About the other points, they are fairly reasonable.