Re: hey, remember the platform?

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On Friday 01 July 2005 15:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> To some extent I see this argument, but also when Aaron and others say
> this I find myself thinking "OK, so some people say stupid stuff; just
> tell them they are stupid and roll on" ;-)
>
> Basically I don't think we should base decisions on the opinions of
> random bystanders. If core developers are getting all OMFGWTF, that's
> important. If Slashdot kiddies are getting excited, well, yay for them.

Developers do get retarded about this though.  Or at least that's my=20
impression from reading the gnome and kde planets, which granted don't make=
=20
much distinction between core people and random headcase in the corner with=
 a=20
blog.  There's a very real desire out there to use some sort of official=20
freedesktop blessing as a way of coercing adoption.  That's not preventable=
,=20
that's human nature; but we don't have to walk into it.

Maybe you toolkit weirdos are just an excitable lot.

There's a philosophical question here about what the software platform is=20
actually for.  I don't have that answer yet.

=2D ajax

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