RE: RE: RE: (Dermot) RE: I know English

You have identified what I see as the Achilles' Heel of Linux: at least on Windows, there arent two different GUI APIs and all GUI software for a particular Windows platform will work for all machines on that platform.

With Linux, you may be in GUI hog heaven one day only to find out that the next thing you need has only been written for the other Window System.

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(Dermot) RE: RE: RE: RE: (Dermot) RE: I know English by Dermot (Scribe) on Nov 01, 2000 at 23:22 UTC
Yes, having two desktop environments complicates matters as you have to decide which one to develop for but it all balances out in the end. Diversity and balance insist that this is so. If someone doesn't like some open source code they just rewrite it. I see similarities between this approach to software development and the feedback mechanisms employed by nature. Many parts of a human body rely on feedback mechanisms and emulating nature is all we ever really do.	[reply]

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by Dermot (Scribe) on Nov 01, 2000 at 23:22 UTC

If someone doesn't like some open source code they just rewrite it. I see similarities between this approach to software development and the feedback mechanisms employed by nature. Many parts of a human body rely on feedback mechanisms and emulating nature is all we ever really do.

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