> That might work for you but but for those who > volunteer their focus is > on their platform of choice - if it happens to work > on others then its a > bonus, but unless they're getting something in return > for supporting and > maintaining support for other platforms, I hardly > blame them.
Oh, now they're not coding out of pleasure and joy, but have to get something in return? Did you write about volunteers previously? Seriously now, there is no excuse. None whatsoever. > And you rant about Schilly - the day when I see him > single handedly > write a big complex piece of software like KDE or > GNOME and it is > portable to all platforms out of the box, then you > can start being > critical. Big? Complex? The whole of AmigaOS intuition.library fit into a 256KB ROM chip, and there was still enough place left for exec.library and dos.library on the same, and then some. FYI, intuition.library was the engine behind the AmigaOS's GUI. Which happened to be lightning fast (even on a 7MHz CPU!), and highly customizable, as MUI can attest. And let me tell you my friend, KDE and GNOME are still playing catchup in terms of elegance and usability of that thing. What's the smallest amount of RAM required for GNOME? KDE? Hey, I'm writing about lightning fast on 7MHz! JDS is dragging like a shot cat on 550MHz!!! And Schily, Schilly has a deeper understanding of UNIX and hardware than many of us here, myself included (and I've done hardware). If only the GNOME and KDE developers knew that much. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
