On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com>wrote:
> Kellerman Rivero Suarez wrote: > > You Right, but in OSS exists multiple browsers, multiple desktop > > managers, multiple media players, and stop count! In this case, I love > > gedit, but is more matter of taste. I think so. > > > > Yes, it's great that Linux allows people to create multiple ways of > painting a shed, but that doesn't mean it is always a good thing. > > OSS is not unique in providing multiple of a XYZ app. Commercial > software has always provided multiple of XYZ apps and has that been a > good thing? For instance: I'm sure you can find multiple music players > for Android phones in the Google store, but does that mean it is a good > thing? There comes a time when a software developer needs to swallow > their pride and work together with another human being to create a > better software instead of forking. It is rare for a fork to succeed and > usually, only succeeds if upstream dies/is dying so in other words the > fork becomes the new upstream and you don't really see it as a fork any > more. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > While gedit is nice, it is a GTK+ app. Do we actually have a decent selection of open source text editors for the GNUStep environment? As far as I know, we don't. TextMate would target a different group of people, those who use the NeXTSTEP/GNUStep environment.
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