"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it's not such a huge loss if some work is duplicated. I'm not > saying all work should be duplicated 10 times (like is happening in > the commercial software world), but if parts of it is done a couple > of times - it's not that horrible.
It may actually be good, keeping competition up and the competitors on edge (hey, you Trolls, GNOME has this super-duper widget-thingy, you are really over 20 minutes behind on this feature that will conquer the market in about 10 days). I am just reading the "Game Hackers" part of Levy's book, where he describes how virtually the whole industry exchanged information about current and future projects (we are working on a car racing game, you better do something else instead), to avoid duplication of effort. That was in a market that was far from saturation, of course, which, I guess, was the desktop situation when Hetz emailed RMS (btw, I didn't realize that RMS was involved in starting GNOME, and I love those historical details - Hetz, or anyone, can you enlight me, on or off list?), so maybe Hetz has a point. It looks like the market for Hebrew spell-checkers is not so crowded either. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Taking any religion too seriously ... can be hazardous to your health." [Richard M. Stallman] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
