On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Ivan Kljaic <iklj...@gmail.com> wrote: > For how many years are this vui library wars going on. How many. Look. > I am a open source supporter but Windows will always kick the ass of > open source because the open source comunity can not make a decision.
You think Microsoft makes decisions and sticks with them? Look at Office's last few versions. They can't decide on a file format, an interface, a featureset... everything keeps changing. The difference is that in the open-source world, everything survives and can be seen as a set of alternatives, whereas in the closed-source world, it's either different versions of one program (like MS Office), or competing products (which usually means one of them dies for lack of money - or is bought out by the other). What we have is not indecision, it is options. Imagine if you went to a hardware shop and were offered only one tool: a magnet. Would you laud them for making a decision and sticking with it? No, you'd wonder what they have against hammers and screwdrivers. I like to have tools available to my use, not someone else making my decisions for me. There's competition in the open source world, too; primarily competition for developer time, a quite scarce resource. If a toolkit is not of value to people, it won't get as many dev hours, so you can often gauge popularity and usefulness by the VCS checkins. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
